Making the Address Books of eMail Server 3.x Available in an External Mail Client

Support knowledgebase (rsimai_imap_ldap_addressbook)
Applies to

eMail Server: Version 3 and 3.1

Situation

You want to make the eMail Server's address books available in an external e-mail client.
For example, the Netscape Messenger's address book supports the use of directory services.
However, you do not know which BaseDN (server root) must be specified.

Procedure

We are assuming that the server domain is suse.de and that the BaseDN is dc=suse,dc=de. As a general rule, the BaseDN corresponds to the domain. The UID (login name) of our sample user is user and it's e-mail address is user@suse.de.

There are three address books:

  1. The system address book:
    The baseDN for configuration is here: dc=suse,dc=de
    Login is anonymous.
  2. The public address book:
    In this case the baseDN is: o=addressbook,dc=suse,dc=de
  3. The user's private address book:

Keywords: IMAP31, ADDRESSBOOK, SYSTEM, PUBLIC, PRIVATE, LDAP, BASEDN, OUTLOOK, NETSCAPE

Categories: SuSE Linux IMAP Server

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