Re: Addressbook in LDAP ... should be simple right?

[Marc Patermann <hans.moser@ofd-z.niedersachsen.de>]

Adam,

Adam Goryachev schrieb (09.07.2014 06:46 Uhr):

> I've now thought it might work to just set the "organization" value to 
> the users branch, which should at least allow a user to view the 
> addressbook, and select all the users in the branch, and then send an 
> email. The other option is to allow the user to "search" for the branch, 
> and then select all the users. None of these actually provide an ideal 
> solution from a usability point of view though.
>
> So, does anyone even use ldap for a email address book (with any email 
> client)? How do you use that/make it work?
If you do not need to look up the members of a group, it just works with 
Thunderbird. Single Person addresses are just inetOrgPerson objects, 
which is fine. Goups are groupOfNames objects with a additional self 
created "groupaddon" object class, which adds
SUP top AUXILIARY
MAY ( mail $ displayName $ sn )
With that the group shows like a normal address book entry, you cannot 
see the members.
We pre-created a additional address book "groups" in Thunderbird which 
by filter does only show the groups, so that they can easily be found. 
And we defined a special naming schema for group mail addresses as well.

> Thanks again for your suggestions, I will look into sogo at some stage, 
> but my current readings suggested it was not a stable platform to try to 
> use daily in a company environment... Even though carddav would work 
> nicely on the mobiles.
Why should SOGo not be production ready? I doubt that.

Marc