[mdlug] anyone using ldap for a thunderbird address book?

[Dan Pritts]

On Aug 12, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Prickle-Prickle, the 5th of Bureaucracy, 3178 , Carl T. Miller said:
>> On 08/12/2012 08:21 PM, Dan Pritts wrote:
>>> On Aug 11, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Carl T. Miller wrote:
>>>> So I'm wondering...is anyone using ldap to keep contacts
>>>> for a thunderbird address book?  Any suggestions?
>>> primary suggestion:  don't use openldap.  your brain will
>>> thank you.
>>> 
>> Ouch, that's the one that Red Hat supports.  I'll probably
>> go with openldap and then continuously remind myself
>> that you warned me!
> 
> I'm sure 389 Server (from epel) works just fine on RHEL:
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page

My understanding of 389 is that it comes from the same original
umich code base that spawned openldap.  I have a bad feeling about 
how easy it is to configure based on that.

Carl, if you do end up with openldap, beyond doing something trivial,
I recommend you do NOT go with the redhat binaries; compile the latest
openldap from source.  

I imagine RHEL6 has a semi-reasonable version but RHEL5 is scary
bad old code.