You may wish to download the software at the homepage ( Mozilla Thunderbird) and install it, before proceed with this lesson.įurthermore you need an LDAP server up and running, which address data should be used as an address book within your E-Mail client. We assume that you have Mozilla Thunderbird installed on your system (or you use another E-Mail client and are willing to assimilate the instructions to your situation). Check your product documentation for details. It is likely that that allow the integration of LDAP directories as well, and even that the configuration is similar to Thunderbird. You may use other E-Mail clients as well. Within this lesson we use Thunderbird primarily because of its broad support for different operation systems and hardware platforms (and because it allows the integration of LDAP servers as address books, of course). Learn more about this software at the projects Homepage: Mozilla Thunderbird. Features include junk mail control and RSS reading. Actually it is more than just an E-Mail client (e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open source E-Mail client which supports many platforms. Hence these tools are easier to use, but less powerful. Main difference between searches with E-Mail clients and searches with LDAP Browsers like Softerra or JXplorer is that most of the complexity of the LDAP search is hidden to the user. Therfore the parameters you have to specify are the same. the client connects to the server and performs LDAP search operations). Technically, a mail program acts as a normal LDAP client, as described in earlier sections (i.e. One of these clients is Mozilla Thunderbird. This seamless integration provides better user experience.
But many E-Mail clients allow to connect to an LDAP based directory directly and use its data as an address book. These address books are often web based application within the intranet. Contact data is stored for all users of the enterprise, and it is quite common to build the companys online phone/address book on this directory. Integrating an LDAP server in an E-Mail client is a very traditionary task, because directories are commonly used as user repositories within companies and organizations. 2 2 list E-Mail clients and Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is used as an example. In this section you will learn how to integrate Apache Directory Server into a mail client in order to use the data as an adressbook.
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