hi william,

yes, i'm doing some work on this today.

feel free to contact me off list if you want to discuss this further.

cheers justin

S. William Schulz wrote:

Has anyone done any work towards integrating directory type services, e.g. LDAP lookups for address books, etc?

ok, great.

here's what we are planning for an app we are integrating roundcube into:

• adding an ldap search button to the addressbook page
• adding an array of ldap servers to allow for configuration of which to

search to the main config file

• clicking on ldap search button produces a form with search fields and

a list of ldap servers to choose from if more than one is configured

• search results to be returned much like the listing of contacts in the

addressbook now, with the capability to click on a returned result to start a mail to that address or add it to your personal contact list

we'll be working to get agreement on how much of this can go into roundcube. from our point of view, the more the merrier.

cheers justin

Brian Steere wrote:

If anything happens with LDAP integration, I would be interested in testing it.

Hmm, I've also been working on LDAP integration. We should meet. :)

So far I've got a generic LDAP backend for Roundcube, and am working on finishing a common interface to search both LDAP and the local DB addressbooks. I figure I'm a week away from finishing given my lack of spare time lately. Then someone like Thomas would probably have to do some of the final work (integrating into autocomplete address boxes, etc).

Things that I plan to support are (all optional, obviously):

1. Global LDAP address book
2. Personal LDAP address book for each user
3. Login via LDAP and retrieve appropriate IMAP server URL from user's

LDAP attribute, if there's any demand for this.

The nice thing about this is it should be seamless - no separate LDAP search screen, etc. It should use the existing autocomplete widget and addressbook search mechanism; the Roundcube interface will just have to pass in which directory it wants to search (local, global, personal, all).

-j

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 12:37 +1000, justin randell wrote:

ok, great.

here's what we are planning for an app we are integrating roundcube into:

• adding an ldap search button to the addressbook page
• adding an array of ldap servers to allow for configuration of which to

search to the main config file

• clicking on ldap search button produces a form with search fields and

a list of ldap servers to choose from if more than one is configured

• search results to be returned much like the listing of contacts in the

addressbook now, with the capability to click on a returned result to start a mail to that address or add it to your personal contact list

we'll be working to get agreement on how much of this can go into roundcube. from our point of view, the more the merrier.

cheers justin

Brian Steere wrote:

...

If anything happens with LDAP integration, I would be interested in testing it.

Thanks for the replies, and the features listed as in progress are exactly what I was asking about. We currently have SM in use, and it has an LDAP directory plugin, but it is not tightly integrated with the addressbook in any way. Basically it is a feature off on its own. Tight integration would be awesome.

S