On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 20:48 +0530, ankush grover wrote:

hey friends,

I am using postfix on Centos4.0 as mailserver. I am looking for a global address book solution means every email client in my network whether outlook, outlookexpress, thunderbird, kmail, evolution etc. can find the user's email ids from that address book. LDAP has such feature but I am not able to find any good howto or Is there any other solution ?

Please let me know if you need any further inputs.

---- LDAP is the way to go. It is in fact, the only Address Book protocol that all of those above e-mail programs are capable of using and more to the point, only Evolution is capable of being anything other than a read-only client.

There is no one best way and LDAP is a system administration hurdle that probably is a lot to tackle if your only aspiration is a group address book. If however, you have a lan with a number of users, LDAP can unify all of the various systems with a common login (the same user id across computers/platforms), a common home directory (across computers/platforms).

The book that did it for me...LDAP System Administration by Gerald Carter (getting a bit old now).

Craig