[pmmail-list] Address book and LDAP (was: More on PMINews & PMMail & OS/2)

[L.Willms]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 18:24:26 +1000, Rod... Whitworth wrote:

> 
> If PMM had a freely defined path to its address book I think we would
> have already been using it and putting up with the users having no
> really private address list.

  I guess the current versions of PMMail would have quite some problems with 
shared access to a file which is being updated by more than one workstation at 
a time. This is solved, in my opinion, by LDAP. 

  What needs to be done? 
  LDAP is only accessible from the Address Book Manager, from the "Tools" 
menu, selection "Search Addresses (CTRL-F)". " The results of the search 
appear in the bottom half of the dialog", says the online help for this. 

  And it then continues: "You can treat this  list just the same as the 
Address List in the Address Book Manager Window.  To view  or manipulate an 
address, simply double click it." The latter is true for editing the address 
book entry, but what is missing, is the possibility to drag'n'drop an address 
from the Search results window into a message compose window or into an 
address book, or to create a message addressed to the selected address(es), as 
the main window of the Address Book Manager. 

   To add this facility (at least the drag'n'drop) should not be too 
difficult, I think. 

   The next, and more complex step, would be to implement updating a remote 
LDAP database, either from the search result, or from the address book, or 
from direct entry. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms
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Frankfurt/Main  

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