43 Folders: I Want a Pony: Snapshots of a Dream Productivity App
Why is there not IMAP for my address bookThere is. It's called LDAP; it's just that it hasn't matured as much as IMAP... yet.
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43 Folders: I Want a Pony: Snapshots of a Dream Productivity App
Why is there not IMAP for my address bookThere is. It's called LDAP; it's just that it hasn't matured as much as IMAP... yet.
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Right, but, you know—in 10 years on the interweb—I don’t think I ever had access to LDAP that I was aware of. I could be wrong, but I don’t think I’ve ever run across it except as an acronym in Preferences boxes.
Is it hard to set up and configure?
::shuffles off to Google…::
OpenLDAP can be tricky to install and configure correctly (especially TLS and SASL). In comparison to other server software (Apache, MySQL, and the like), then I would say, "yes," it is a bit more difficult.
That's probably true. And, many people have never had access to an IMAP server for their email. But, via the advent of Webmail, they have received a similar set of functions. I see LDAP following a similar path... something like webDAP or whatever. I can also see it taking a tremendous role in "identity."
I disagree wholeheartedly. OpenLDAP is at least as simple to set up as MySQL. Of course, to set up MySQL you need to have at least an idea of what a relational table is and also a few MySQL-specific things such as how usernames and passwords work. OpenLDAP is exactly the same deal. You need to know a bit of how LDAP works, that attributes have names as well as numbers and that this mapping is called a schema. There's also the same but different authentication part. But no, it's not harder in any way.