Using LDAP in Eudora (Mac)

Using LDAP in Eudora (Mac)

Eudora lets you look up individuals on the Internet and within your company using several Directory Services protocols. Each of these protocols is a search method following a set of predefined rules. You can now perform these Internet and intranet queries using the popular protocol LDAP, which stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

There are a number of public LDAP servers connected to the Internet today that can be used by virtually anyone to look up individuals on the Internet. These include those supplied by White Pages-style Internet directory providers such as Four11, Bigfoot, WhoWhere?, and InfoSpace, among others. In addition, many companies have their own in-house LDAP servers for performing both in-house searches of employee information and external searches of the Internet.

A list of public LDAP servers is available at emailman.com. (Thanks to Andrew Starr!).

An LDAP server is simply a service that provides information about people. Perhaps the one drawback of LDAP servers is that many of them require complex setup to work properly. Fortunately, however, you can perform this setup right in Eudora: all you need is an LDAP URL (Universal Resource Locator).

For additional information, download the LDAP information guide. (.pdf ~40k).

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KEYWORDS: EPMAC, ALLCARDS, LDAP