On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 13:02, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 15:32, Marius Andreiana wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 22:24, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We're interested in open source servers that might be interesting as > > > shared calendar backends for Evolution. > > How about shared contacts too? I know LDAP can do this, but evolution > > doesn't seem to be able to write to server, only reading. > > > > Good point. In an MS architecture, are contacts in Exchange or in AD? > Anyone know the answer for Sun, Lotus, Novell? > > The weakness of LDAP seems to be that it's only people who work at your > company. We need some other idea of contacts that includes anyone you > email or IM, roughly speaking. > > Havoc I can't remember off the top of my head if Evolution supports modifying LDAP data, but I think it does. The problem is (mostly) ACLs, it's actually relatively straightforward to allow read-write access for adding entries "beneath" a user's dn, but most people don't do this. Given the proper configuration, LDAP is a perfectly reasonable place to store both "enterprise-wide" and personal contact information. -- Shahms King <shahms@xxxxxxxxxx>
