You CANNOT search an LDAP directory by simply selecting it on the left hand side and then entering your search in the “Name or Email contains” textbox. The Address Book UI in Thunderbird is just clumsy. Depending on what kinds of addresses are in your Active Directory, you may need to refine this filter more (for example, if you’ve got mail-enabled Public Folders which you want to display).ħ. You can override this with something like (objectclass=person) on the Advanced tab of Directory Service Properties. Mozilla and Thunderbird default to a Search Filter of (objectclass=*) which will return lots of useless (non-email address) entries from Active Directory. Wait a few seconds, and your results should show up.Ħ. Results are returned asynchronously to the Thunderbird Address Book, so you might see “No matches found” immediately after clicking the Search button. For the username, specify exactly the same thing you put into Bind DN.ĥ. This function seems to “see” that Active Directory wants a logon, so Thunderbird will display the logon dialog to let you enter your domain credentials.
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The easiest, most reliable way I have found to force it is to go to the Offline tab in the Directory Server Properties and click the Download button. For some reason, Thunderbird doesn’t always seem to recognize that it needs to log on before querying. You should enter it qualified by the NetBIOS domain name, for example: mydomain\usernameĤ. For Bind DN, you must enter a domain user which has permission to search the directory. For Base DN, you MUST enter something like dc=yourdomain,dc=com (whereas Outlook Express lets you get away with putting NULL).ģ. The default LDAP port for Active Directory is 3268 (not 389) so make sure you’ve got this port open thru the firewall, and make sure to configure it in your LDAP account settings in Mozilla/Thunderbird.Ģ. OK, here is how Mozilla/Thunderbird LDAP works with Exchange 2000-2003:ġ. Two things I’ve found this morning that have helped my noggin’ and I’ll list them here for future reference for myself as well as in hopes of helping some other poor concrete/geek/proverbial/noggin’-banging soul.įirst, I’ve found this post which lists a very helpful step-by-step approach for getting things almost working: Today, my geeky noggin’ has broken through the proverbial concrete wall and I now have both KDE’s kaddressbook and Thunderbird’s address book successfully using the Exchange server here at work.
I have on-and-off-again been beating my head against the proverbial concrete wall in trying to get it to work nicely with LDAP and addressbooks other than Evolution or Outlook, for obvious reasons. My current employer uses Exhange 2003 as its current groupware solution.
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