Comments on: Active Directory as LDAP Address Book For Thunderbird, Outlook and Mail.app

By: Robert Middleswarth

Robert Middleswarth — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:11:28 +0000

Nikolaus #19,

LDAP sends thing in plain text on port 389 that is by protocol it has to send it clear text. You have to enable SSL to stop that.

Thanks
Robert

By: Nikolaus

Nikolaus — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:22:40 +0000

Hi,
I tried this recipe on tb 2.0.19 on linux with a 2003R2 AD. At first I thought it doesn’T work, but the integration in thunderbird seems only half-ready:

- addressbook can’t query the directory and show the addresses in the overview
- addressbook doesn’t send correct auth, when asking for offline download
- the first time password is asked for is while adding recipients to a new mail.
BTW: the passwords are send in plain text!!

In this state it’s not usable for me. I will file bugs for LDAP support in TB.

Hope that helps…

By: Rafal

Rafal — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:43:46 +0000

Hello
Maybe someone know how to edit contacts on LDAP server (AD) from Outlook.
I can list contacts but can not update or add new one.
Via AD users and Computers this task is unproblematic – i delagate control to add and change contact objects.

Regards
Rafal

By: Makea

Makea — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:23:49 +0000

This works for OS X 10.5 (Leopard) in both addressbook and mail.app:

For the search base, capitalization counts: CN=Users,DC=company,DC=com

For the username, use your email address:me@company.com

After modifying the search base and username, the directions in this article worked great!

However, with Snow Leopard, this will no longer be an issue as Exchange support will be built-in.

By: Buhar Kazan?

Buhar Kazan? — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:12:03 +0000

This is very good article, but how can we do ldap authentication in unix with connecting the active directory in Primary Domain Server?

Buhar Kazan?

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:44:17 +0000

Thank you for sharing this!

By: Ritesh

Ritesh — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:02:11 +0000

In my thunderbird setup I set my LDAP directory as hostname = 10.22.140.69 . with search filter properties as (objectclass=*). It is working fine in thunderbird. I want to configure the same thing in MS Outlook 2007, but i am unsuccessful doing it. Please suggesst me what i m doing wrong.

By: AOS

AOS — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:15:03 +0000

Have anybody figured out why it is not working if you changes the searchbase to f.ex an ou=users2?

By: Yicrosoft Directory

Yicrosoft Directory — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:59:57 +0000

This post was such a great find, it is really helpful for me since I do use my contacts constantly. I have since forwarded this to my coworkers, hoping they will find as much use in this as I did.

By: Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:03:46 +0000

@Octavio -

Any luck figuring out why it wasn’t showing anything? Perhaps there was an incorrect search filter?