Is it possible to enable Domino directory access for mail clients such as Thunderbird? What does the configuration look like on both the server and the client?
Subject: Enabling Domino directory access for other mail clients
Domino can handle POP3 client, IMAP client, WEB and the Notes client.
Look in the Admin help for more details.
Subject: Enabling Domino directory access for other mail clients
LDAP should do the trick
Subject: Connecting Mozilla Thunderbird to the Domino LDAP server
Is it possible to enable Domino directory access for mail clients such as Thunderbird? What does the configuration look like on both the server and the client?
You’ll need to start the Domino LDAP server - see “Domino Directory FAQ” (google it).
To connect Mozilla Thunderbird to the Domino LDAP server, we follow the directions described at …
http://kb.mozillazine.org/LDAP_access_via_Address_Book
LDAP access via Address Book
From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
For settings regarding LDAP open the Address Book window and go to “File → New → LDAP Directory”. Complete required details in the General, Offline, and Advanced tabs. LDAP directory settings can also be changed by going to “Tools → Options → Composition → Addresssing” and clicking on the “Edit Directories” button (in the Address Autocompletion panel).
Below is a setup example. (Feel free to add other examples.)
Connecting to an Active Directory (AD) on a MS Small Business Server
“General” tab:
Name: Choose a name for this server (there is no must-have value for the field “name”; just choose something).
Hostname: The IP address of the server or a domain name which can be resolved from the computer Thunderbird is running on. Keep in mind that there shoud be no firewall blocking the requests.
Base DN: When connecting from Thunderbird to an SBS Server, this sould be something like: “ou=SBSUsers,ou=Users,ou=MyBusiness,dc=NameOfMyDomain,dc=local”.
Port number: Should be 636 when connecting to the server via a non-secure or non-private network; otherwise you can use 389. (Keep firewalls in mind which might block your port requests.)
Bind DN: When connecting to an AD on an SBS environment use: “myLoginUsername@NameOfMyDomain.local”.
Use secure connection (SSL): Checking the SSL option should be the prefered way of operation when connection via public or non-secured networks. Also keep the port setting in mind when changing this.
“Offline” tab:
No changes needed if you want to connect to an AD on an SBS System.
“Advanced” tab:
Choose whatever you like at this tab, but good values should be:
Don’t return more than ___ results: 100
Scope: Subtree
Search filter: “(objectclass=*)”
External links
Connecting Mozilla to Active Directory
Retrieved from “LDAP access via Address Book - MozillaZine Knowledge Base”
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Tools → Address Book
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File → New → LDAP Directory
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In the Directory Server Properties dialog, enter this in the General tab
Name: Any name you’d like. I chose “Domino LDAP at klin2”
Hostname: The hostname of the Domino LDAP server
Base DN: I left this blank so I can search for groups that live at the root
Port number: I left this at 389, since my LDAP server does not use SSL
Bind DN: I used the LDAP form of my Notes DN (simplistically, use tags and replace slashes with commas)
- In the Advanced tab …
Search filter: Allowed it to search for Person and Groups docs using this RFC 4515 (LDAP Search Filters) compliant search filter (|(objectclass=person)(objectclass=groupofnames))
- Reboot Thunderbird for the LDAP configuration settings to take effect