Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (671 mails)

[Anton Aylward <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sven Burmeister said the following on 06/19/2011 07:28 AM:

> What features are missing in kdepim 4.6's addressbook?

Integration with Thunderbird.

Not everyone who uses KDE, wonderful as it is, uses KMail.
Thunderbird has many features that recommend it, not least of all a
large number of add-ons.  Its a shame that its a GTK rather than a Qt
applciation :-(

However it *does* make use of LDAP addressbooks.

Now you can't install opensuse without installing LDAP.
I've complained about this, but its a fact of life.
While things like PAM may be plugable, the userID/groupID stuff required
by login, ls and much else that uses /etc/nssswitch isn't plugable.  The
code for all the possible branches - AND ONLY THOSE - is compiled in.
One of those is LDAP.

Try removing whichever version of libldap you have installed.
You may not need the LDAP client, but the libraries are either compiled
in or 'packaged in" to many other components, and cascades.

Yes, I know, it doens't have to be so.  You can run Linux and opensuse
without running a LDAP server, but the way opensuse is put together you
can't install it without install the LDAP libraries.  So if you are
going to run an information repository why not cut to the chase and make
it LDAP?  After all, you can then use it for just about everything:
Postfix configuration, DNS, integration with SAMBA and as the backing
for Active Directory.

Oh, and an addressbook.
That can be used by Thunderbird.

And KMail?  I gather searching the Web that KMail can use a LDAP
addressbook.  I see many queries about how to set it up.  But then
setting up Thunderbird's LDAP isn't a piece of cake either :-(

So, if you have to have LDAP with opensuse, why have another addressbook
database?  If I forget about kdepim and  Akonadi
and use LDAP I an use either Thunderbird or KMail (or Evolution or
Outlook or ....).

What if I don't want to use Kmail?
What if the mailhub machine I access using IMAP does its own indexing
out there?


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