LDAP support

30. June 2003, 18:27:38

Posts: 2

First of all, I am extremely impressed with the M2 mail client. I'm evaluating new mail clients now to use for work, and I believe that the view capabilities in M2 could really increase my productivity. It's refreshing to finally see someone invent a new (and improved) type of email client.

However, the lack of LDAP lookup support rules M2 out of list for now. With thousands of email addresses in a corporation, including both users and group alias, LDAP lookups have been invaluable to us with other clients, such as Netscape/Mozilla, Outlook and Evolution.

It might not be so bad if there was a way sychronize (or import) a contact list with an external application, but that's not available either.

Please consider LDAP lookup support in future versions of M2.

thank you,
Dan Anolik

30. June 2003, 20:08:56

MTKnight

Posts: 1682

Could you elaborate on what LDAP is, for those of us what are ignorant on the subject?

30. June 2003, 22:37:21

Dan Anolik

Posts: 2

LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It's an IETF standard protocol with many different server and client side implementations.

It's used by many corporations for a variety of things including (but not limited to) account management. Various applications, and most UNIX operating systems can actually authenticate through LDAP. Microsoft's Active Directory is even a somewhat compatible version of LDAP.

More relevant to email clients however, is that LDAP is often used as the master directory of account information. Email clients such as Outlook, Netscape/Mozilla, Eudora, Evolution and others can query LDAP for address lookup. It works similar to the way that Opera uses it's internal contact list, except that the LDAP directory is shared from a server, has everyone in your enterprise, and is theoretically kept up to date.

For more information, check out:
http://www.openldap.org/
http://www.rage.net/ldap/ldapns-howto/LdapNS-howto.html
or look at Netscape/Mozilla for a very nice implementation of an LDAP friendly email client.

24. July 2003, 11:08:23

Marc Mausch

Posts: 2

LDAP Support

I strongly support the demand for LDAP support!

Regards,

Marc Mausch

4. August 2003, 12:28:52

svirre

Posts: 85

I would like to see LDAP support i M2 too. It is very combersome to add contacts from scrathch. I vote for LDAP

Sverre

16. September 2003, 12:32:56

ertank

Posts: 58

LDAP support

I also use LDAP server in my company for company wide e-mail address book. I requested LDAP in early stages of M2. I think that it is time to implement "LDAP Version 2" and "LDAP Version 3" protocol support in M2.

Ertan Kucukoglu
ertan.kucukoglu@gmail.com

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16. October 2003, 07:47:08

Mr.Kane

Posts: 11

LDAP support would be of great help for me to introduce Opera (and M2) as a viable alternative to MS products.

As it is now the mail client is to weak and our managment prefere integrated solutions.

So please, LDAP support would be great!

cu / birger....

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13. November 2003, 12:55:59

JeanneZ

Posts: 6

LDAP support

Support for LDAP lookup is a must-have feature to use M2 in corporate environments.
But keep in mind that the LDAP server might be busy/slow/down. So, it would be nice not to lookup in LDAP for auto-complete function but only in (Active) Contacts. Maybe, let the user force a LDAP lookup with a keyboard shortcut (Alt-K, like in Outlook).

Also, if users expand group aliases, the To field may contains hundreds of email addresses. It's maybe better not to add all these email addresses in (Active) Contacts without the user confirmation in order to keep the Contacts list small and usable. IMHO

4. May 2004, 12:59:27

bh1974

Posts: 3

I agree. LDAP would be very nice.

Bjorn

10. May 2004, 15:53:43

emm67

Posts: 1

M2.LDAP=YES for me too!

I inderstand the decision to dedicate development resources towards another technology isn't taken lightly, but with all the attention LDAP's getting in this thread, the investment would be well received. M2 might even knock off Outlook, etc., in some organizations.

For what it's worth, I think it's great in most other ways, guys.

EM

3. June 2004, 13:37:26

johnnyfulcrum

Posts: 10

another vote for LDAP.

4. June 2004, 08:32:54

ileoo

Posts: 98

I would also like too m2 to support ldap

10. June 2004, 05:19:13

TomaCzar

Posts: 2

My college uses LDAP as well, I think it's the default standard for any organization with over thirty bodies (it's just a guess). If this is an actual factual petition, I'll put my name riiiiiiiight here. LDAP SUPPORT --> YES PLEASE

4. November 2004, 10:33:42

Cruncher

Shishigami

Posts: 1315

...just to keep this thread alive:
YES, please get LDAP working. It would be a very nice and important add-on to transform M2 from "a mailer" to "a comfortable mailer with cherry on top".

There is an entry in the knowledge database saying they are "planning to support LDAP, but it is not yet implemented." The entry is from 2002...

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4. November 2004, 17:17:34

ileoo

Posts: 98

I've also like to see ldap support for opera

8. November 2004, 10:36:03

stevenb

Posts: 4

There are only a dozen of us in our company, but without a shared address book (read LDAP) the otherwise great M2 would never be considered.

22. September 2005, 10:40:19

rameshms

Posts: 1

I'm so surprised to see LDAP still not supported in Opera which is otherwise a wonderful mail client. Worse I see the request being made as early as 2 yrs ago. Is the mail client under active development ?

I'm currently using Opera 8.5.

22. September 2005, 10:43:44

NoobSaibot

Remember

Posts: 1443

Merlin will bring some improvements. We'll see

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26. September 2005, 12:48:10

bashuman

Posts: 1

Here is another vote for LDAP

3. October 2005, 12:29:53

fuxs

Posts: 182

+1

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10. October 2005, 21:42:57

Scott_Arm

Posts: 1

If they added LDAP support to the Opera, I could stop using Microsoft Outlook at work. The company is too big to use an email client without LDAP support.

It would also simplify things for me because we have some newsgroups at work, but I can't read them in Outlook. So, right now I have Outlook for my IMAP mail, Outlook express for newsgroups and Firefox for web browsing. if they added LDAP support to Opera, I could replace all of those programs with the Opera and be done with it. It's pretty much a must have feature for an email client.

12. October 2005, 12:41:54

operarulz

Banned user

I found a home-grown LDAP solution for Opera on Google Groups. Seems useful until LDAP is natively supported.

28. March 2006, 21:29:05

John4656

Posts: 22

Unfortunately that fix is a little too complex for me - where would i put that string exactly...? anyway Ldap support would be friggin awesome - M2 already my client of choice and slowly converting people over to it but Ldap would speed up that conversion for sure.

xx

17. April 2006, 12:16:51

jp10558

Posts: 4163

+100... I prefer to keep everything in one internet app at work, but currently have to start up thunderbird just to send e-mail to someone when I don't know their address.

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17. April 2006, 15:01:05

jax

Posts: 7122

I would like LDAP support too, but this is one of the "either you really need it, or you don't need it at all" features, so right now I would prefer improvements that benefit (most) everyone and make sure that the LDAP support, when it comes, will be a good one.

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19. April 2006, 17:11:25

cenebris

Posts: 426

ldap would be very nice - even home users could benefit from it very much.

6. June 2006, 12:03:36

gelbsucht

Posts: 10

I would like to have LDAP, too. Exists an alternative to LDAP which one can use?

7. June 2006, 04:45:38

drworm

Posts: 1522

Originally posted by jax:

I would like LDAP support too, but this is one of the "either you really need it, or you don't need it at all" features, so right now I would prefer improvements that benefit (most) everyone and make sure that the LDAP support, when it comes, will be a good one.

This seems to be the attitude about most requests to include (arguably) ordinary features that would bring M2 inline with other e-mail clients. It's humbling to see a statement that may reveal that M2 was never meant to compete, but was included only as a convenience.

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22. January 2007, 00:20:14

cenebris

Posts: 426

Now that scheduleworld.com provides ldap access everybody can have access to it's addressbook. Please Opera, add ldap!

26. January 2007, 13:41:20

Klaus_1250

Posts: 29

+1 I've been using LDAP for years as an online addressbook and am quite frustrated that it is on of those little gems that has not been implemented. I wouldn't even think of using M2 without it.

OTOH it has to be said that there is also no way to implement it properly without using a custom schema (such as MozillaABperson, which is far from complete) and that all LDAP-capable clients (Outlook, Mozilla, Evolution) seem to have their own way to using and displaying attributes.

6. February 2007, 23:37:30

Vambeer

Posts: 323

+1

Nothing really matters

22. May 2007, 13:30:59

Umblehoon

Posts: 14

I came here to add a wishlist item for LDAP, and discovered this thread. Nice to see others have already thought of that and that I'm not alone. I use Opera all the time, especially at work, where we have an LDAP (which I administer) with approximately 75,000 users. I would prefer to not always have to query it manually to find the contact information for people I need to reach.

It certainly won't make me stop using Opera (nothing short of the company folding, leading to an end of browser development, would). However, it's one of those missing features which, now that I notice it's not there, is constantly bugging me.

31. May 2007, 01:13:13

Jaron

Posts: 52

+1

16. June 2007, 03:59:11

enmane

Posts: 2

c'mon Opera - a google search reveals that this has been asked for the past 4-5 yrs. I like Opera and I'm getting used to M2 but I can't use it without LDAP support. Surely that isn't too difficult to implement.

I sure would like to know what the hold up is seeing I invested so much time figuring out how to do things with m2 compared to TB and Seamonkey. Anyhow, I've tried Opera about 8 times over the past 7 yrs and there is always something that is lacking. I like the fact that it is fast and light but I guess there is a reason for that - it's lacking critical features.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add LDAP support!

16. June 2007, 04:00:02

enmane

Posts: 2

...and a proper addressbook wouldn't be bad either ;-)

17. June 2007, 23:52:39

drworm

Posts: 1522

Originally posted by enmane:

c'mon Opera - a google search reveals that this has been asked for the past 4-5 yrs.

I'll bet you that you won't see it another 4-5 years either.

Aside from basic maintenance, security fixes and useability improvements, no solid e-mail features have been added since it was first introduced in 7.0.

If M2 doesn't meet you needs now, it would be best to assume it never will. This isn't the only common feature found in most common e-mail programs that has been ignored for 4-5 years. Which is a shame, a few basic features like this could have made it the best free mail program available.

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4. August 2007, 07:28:08

AnshulAgrawal

Posts: 13

For those who want a temp solution till LDAP is fully supported, download this very small and handy (free) utility which I used to import all my contacts from my Yahoo address book into Opera

http://www.sharewareguide.net/Business/Applications/coopera.html

Works like a charm and complete process took less than 10 seconds.

Anshul

30. October 2007, 12:49:26

cenebris

Posts: 426

But still - integrated ldap would be huge...