Global addressbook access

[Torsten Grote]

On Wednesday 17 December 2014 19:03:00 Sergio Talens-Oliag wrote:
> I'm testing a kolab installation on a debian wheezy machine to integrate on
> our current infrastructure (we are using nginx, dovecot, postfix, openldap
> and dspam).
> 
> I have almost all what I want working [..], so my plan is to
> ask on this list and share my findings once I have my system working.

It would be great if you could share your documentation on how to integrate 
dovecot and openldap with Kolab! There's plenty of people interested in that.

> Now, my first question, ¿is it possible to share the Global Address Book
> (the LDAP based one) through CardDAV and ActiveSync as a standard readonly
> addressbook?

I don't know about ActiveSync, but for CardDAV this is possible:

    https://git.kolab.org/iRony/tree/config/dav.inc.php.sample#n55

> looking at the code it
> looks that instead of the current LDAPDirectory we could provide a
> LDAPContactsBackend that provides the required functions to make LDAP
> behave like a readonly IMAP based address boot... does it make sense?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

> I've been
> thinking about the possibility of *dumping* the LDAP Global Address book to
> a shared calendar automatically

That sounds like a possibility. Please share with us how you did that once it 
is working.

Kind Regards,
Torsten

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