Access one's contacts via LDAP
A user's contacts in MDaemon should be accessible from an eMail client simply via LDAP. Normally contacts within a user's post office box can be accessed from the web interface or via Outlook-Connector. But email clients like Thunderbird connected via IMAP or POP don not have access to contacts - but they could, if MDaemon only spoke LDAP.
Erhard Puetz
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Hello,
Thank you for sharing your suggestion for contacts to be available in an LDAP server. This is already possible. MDaemon has the ability to export contact information to any LDAP server that you choose. In addition, contacts are available via ActiveSync (an additional license is required) or via CardDAV.
Thanks,
Arron
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MDaemon supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) functionality. Click "Setup » Server Settings » LDAP" to reach the LDAP screen used for configuring MDaemon to keep your LDAP server up to date on all of its user accounts. MDaemon can maintain an accurate and continuously up to date LDAP database of users by communicating with your LDAP server each time an MDaemon account is added or removed. This makes it possible for users with mail clients that support LDAP to "share" a global address book that will contain entries for all of your MDaemon users as well as any other contacts that you include.
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Erhard Puetz
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Hello Arron, exporting each user's contacts and importing them to a 3rd party LDAP server upon every contact being changed, added or deleted sounds a bit impractical. The user's contacts should be used as the database and not any copy of them. We do not export the user's emails to a 3rd party webserver that provides webmail for MDaemon, do we?