Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 13:44 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I want to create a kaddressbook/kmail distribution list >> from my openldap address book, >> choosing those entries with "o=course-111". >> Does anyone know if this is possible? >> >> I can see my LDAP address book from kaddressbook, >> and see that there is an option to add names >> to a distribution list. >> But as far as I can see one can only choose entries >> based on Name or Email Address - >> there does not seem to be any option for choosing >> eg by an o=Organisation attribute, as I want to do. >> [I do see the Organisation value listed if I give a Name.] >> >> Incidentally, as far as I can see, >> if one creates a distribution list it is specific >> to a given machine. >> Is there any way of creating a system-wide distribution list? >> I guess if I could get the distribution list from my LDAP address list >> this would serve the purpose, >> but I wondered if there was a more direct way. > Are you sure you want to do it this way? In my experience this kind of > list tends to wind up being a pain to administer because you're > basically doing everything from the mail client, which is the wrong > place for it (for one thing, it's difficult to share the list access > with anyone else, e.g a TA). If your institution supports it -- and I'd > be surprised if Trinity didn't -- you should use the standard mailing > list system they have, e.g. Mailman or whatever. It might take a little > more setup but you'll thank me in the end :-) Well, the TCD Maths computer system certainly runs mailman. (Actually, I set it up.) But I am thinking about my own system at home. I think my query is one that will become more significant, as more people set up multi-machine systems at home. Essentially, I would like to have all information on one "server", and access this information from various laptops. To this end, I've set up an openldap address book (much more difficult than I expected, as openldap people seem to speak a strange language). I'd like to use this address book for all purposes, eg as a phonebook as well as source for distribution lists. I use dovecot IMAP to keep email on one machine, and basically would like to extend this to distribution lists. But kaddressbook (I am a KDE user) does not seem to have any facility for system-wide distribution lists. (Similarly, knode does not seem to have any facility to keep different machines "in sync".) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
