LDAP + Thunderbird

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 19/02/2009

hi,

raf reported that he got ldap address book search running in thunderbird (see here) with the following input data:

* Hostname: ldapcst.ua.ac.be
* Base DN: OU=Employees,OU=UA-Users,DC=ad,DC=ua,DC=ac,DC=be
* Port number: 3268
* Bind DN: your-ua-username@ad.ua.ac.be

the ldap server could as well be ldapcde.ua.ac.be i think, at least that's what we used to organize login at the shiny departmental website.

anyway, i couldn't get it running. anyone else with more luck?

cheers,
nico

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I just now started setting up evolution because i couldn't get thunderbird working :) Oh well...

I'll see how far I can get on both and report back

Gerd

Submitted by Gerd Loos on Mon, 09/03/2009

Hooray!
I got LDAP working in OS X Mail.
But not after 1 year of problems...

I entered the settings, but for ldapcde (Campus Drie Eiken).
In mail preferences, select "Composing" and check the box "Automatically complete addresses". Click "Configure LDAP".
Click "+" and enter:
Name: LDAPCDE (name doesn't matter
Server: ldapcde.ua.ac.be (use appropriate campus ldap server)
Port: 3268
Use SSL: not checked!
Search Base: OU=Employees,OU=UA-Users,DC=ad,DC=ua,DC=ac,DC=be
Scope: Base
Authentication: Simple
Username: username@ad.ua.ac.be
Password: userpassword

Hopefully it works for other people as well.

Note: Mail will sometimes crash, which is caused by LDAP trying to connect to the network.

I am wondering whether it is necessary to set an LDAP server using the Directory Utility, but I did it anyway (using the same settings). (You can find this application with spotlight or in /Applications/Utilities)

Alternative e-mail client: since a couple of months I've tried Postbox, a brand new (free for now) maili client. This applicartion doesn't seem to work with the same server settings for LDAP, to beconfigured in the application itself.
I'll figure this out later... The advantage however of postbox is that you can migrate your ua mail account to e.g. gmail and set postbox to label your mail folders as gmail "labels", so you won't loose folder information.

Submitted by Jean Waucomont on Mon, 08/06/2009

hi jean, wow, that sounds pretty exciting! do you think that might be something for the wiki? i believe [http://win.ua.ac.be/wiki/LDAP](http://win.ua.ac.be/wiki/LDAP) might be a good spot. do some copy & paste, if you have time! :) cheers, nico
Submitted by nschloe on Mon, 08/06/2009

Wow, finally it's working. I don't really know what I was doing wrong, as things seem to work alright with the original configuration. May be that I didn't notice that one has to have a UA IP address when trying to connect... Hm.

Anyway, it's now all posted on the new wiki. Addenda welcome!

Submitted by nschloe on Mon, 15/06/2009

It worked for me for a while; but since a few days it stopped. I'm looking into it now. Hope I get it going again.

Will keep you up to date

Gerd

Submitted by Gerd PSW on Thu, 16/07/2009

Hi Gerd,

I just tried it and it still seems to work, so you might wanna check your configuration.

Cheers,
Nico

Submitted by nschloe on Thu, 16/07/2009

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