[Fedora-directory-users] What next?

[Rich Megginson]

Chris Curran wrote:

> Rich,
>
>      Tbird logging into FDS?  What does that mean?
>
>
> I have a LDAP server setup in my Tbird Address Book. To test the 
> connection, in Tbird addr book I choose the 'Offline' tab then 
> 'Download Now'. It asks me for a username and password - I enter them 
> and at that point I'm back where I began in Tbird. I check the log 
> files in FDS (access) and there are a number of entries - all those 
> beginning with "RESULT" have "err=0". Therefore, I conclude that I am 
> logging into FDS without error.

How did you populate your FDS database?

>
>     >From what system?  From OpenLDAP?
>
>
> >From FDS.
>
>     Can you tell me how to reproduce this error?
>
>
> Choose the 'Export' option on the 'Tasks' tab. Any permutation that I 
> tried resulted in the same error (userroot).
>
>     There does not exist "officially supported" documentation either
>     from Fedora or Red Hat or Mozilla.  You might be able to find
>     something with Google.  I would be surprised if there were
>     officially supported documentation from any Directory Server
>     vendor with respect to Thunderbird integration since it's
>     relatively new.
>
>
> Uhh... Tbird/Mozilla Mail has been around for a number of years and 
> certainly can't be called "new". I don't know about other vendors; 
> this is the first Directory Server I have evaluated (although the Sun 
> salesperson I spoke to told me they support Tbird - how I don't know - 
> we'll find out next week).

There are several folks in the FDS community who have successfully used 
FDS as their Tbird address book.  So I know FDS supports it.  It's just 
that we don't have any official documentation.

>
> thanks,
> Chris Curran
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>--
>Fedora-directory-users mailing list
>Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com
>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
>  
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-directory-users/attachments/20050802/6e6f388c/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 3312 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-directory-users/attachments/20050802/6e6f388c/attachment.bin>