Star Mozilla Betas Thunderbird 2.0
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th Dec 2006 21:05 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones "The Thunderbird email client doesn't get half the attention that its big brother, the Firefox browser, gets, but the Mozilla Foundation has finally gotten around to lavishing some love on it, and the first beta of version 2 is now out. If you think there's nothing more that can added to an email client - except for the fabled seek-out-and-destroy-spam option - prepare to be pleasantly surprised. The new Thunderbird comes with numerous new features."
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RE: LDAP write possibility
by WarpKat on Fri 15th Dec 2006 22:24 UTC in reply to "LDAP write possibility"
WarpKat
Member since:
2006-02-06

I saw somewhere that this was not going to happen, but I can't exactly tell you where I read it. When I find it, I'll post the link unless someone else can link to it.

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RE[2]: LDAP write possibility
by sb56637 on Sat 16th Dec 2006 01:00 in reply to "RE: LDAP write possibility"
sb56637 Member since:
2006-05-11

I would be really interested in this too, if you can find the link. The Thunderbird address book with address auto-completion in the composition window is so well done, it's just a pity that it's not easier to use it for a shared contacts list.

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RE[3]: LDAP write possibility
by rajj on Sat 16th Dec 2006 08:13 in reply to "RE: LDAP write possibility"
rajj Member since:
2005-07-06

This isn't the way LDAP directories typically work. They are meant to be read only from the end user's perspective.

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RE[4]: LDAP write possibility
by converter on Mon 18th Dec 2006 15:24 in reply to "RE[3]: LDAP write possibility"
converter Member since:
2006-12-18

I think you meant "[t]his isn't the way LDAP directories are typically used." Every DSA implementation I'm aware of can be configured to provide space for multiple public and private address books. With proper Access Controls in place, non-sensitive address books can be public and read-only and private address books can be visible only to their owners and the appropriate managerial users, for whom they may or may not be writable.

Given the value of address book information to most organizations it's just silly to allow 3,647 different versions of that information to be squirreled away in as many users' privately-owned data stores.

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sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

"""They are meant to be read only from the end user's perspective."""

There are meant to be *optimized* for reads.

However... in actual practice, they *are* read only from the users' perspective.

IMO, this substantially attenuates LDAP's usefulness.

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