Distribution lists in AddressBook- EGW 14.2 with LDAP

[lobokn]

Hi,
is there any chance to use distribution lists in Address Book under LDAP.
When I open address book I can see “Distribution lists” sign, but there
is not any field where I can see lists along.

Thanks

Lubos

[Ralf_Becker_Stylite]

Hi Lubos,

Hi,
is there any chance to use distribution lists in Address Book under LDAP.
When I open address book I can see “Distribution lists” sign, but there
is not any field where I can see lists along.
No, distribution lists were never implemented for LDAP, due to a
standardized way how to store them in LDAP.

I know we could use eg. GroupOfNames to store something like
distribution lists, or other systems have their own schemata to store them.

LDAP support, specially pagination of an ordered result set, in PHP and
openLDAP was lacking by the time of last rework of our LDAP support.
That has changed and current PHP versions and openLDAP (or AD) now
support that. So we could revisit it now.

On the other hand LDAP always been a support nightmare, because most
admins have some SQL knowledge but no LDAP one.

Maybe it’s going to happen with improved ActiveDirectory and Univention
Corporate Server support …

Ralf

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[lobokn]

Hi, Ralf
thanks for your answer. I understand that is not easy support
two kind of databases. And that the main focus is on SQL.
But LDAP is quite supported by other mail clients. You can
share and access LDAP address book for example from
squirrel, thunderbird. SQL is less supported in this field.
I have users that uses more email clients and not only EGW and
want have only one address book that they can access from these clients.

So I tried change settings from LDAP to SQL->LDAP(read only) in addressbook setting.
Creating of contacts works fine. Stores new contacts in SQL and in LDAP, but when I try
to delete contact from adressbook I got many errors. Contact will disappear from EGW
addressbook, from MySQL database, but remain in LDAP.
I attached txt file with errors. If you’ll find some time to take look at it I’ll be glad.

Regards

Luboserrors.txt (16.4 KB)