From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T23:37:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby LDAP --- Hooray!!

Out of curiosity, what kind of identities are you storing in Exchange
(and maybe LDAP someday) to support your mobile CRM? are they people
who work for your company? or people who are your company's
customers/vendors/partners?

(I ask because I'm thinking ahead about some business-oriented
enhancements to the LDAP library.)

On 7/28/06, gregarican <greg.kujawa@gmail.com> wrote:
> For this one task all I am doing is pulling the Exchange Server global
> address book through LDAP and uploading the derived list to an upstream
> provider that helps us filter out spam e-mail messages. It's just a
> quick pull and the library you have made things a snap. It's all done
> now.
>
> There was another project I was considering moving to LDAP. Right now I
> have a mobile CRM app that uses Exchange CDO for storing the contact
> details. Rather than use this (clunky) storage method I am thinking
> about moving the contact store over to an lighter weight LDAP tree. I
> have OpenLDAP Server on my development box and did some modeling of how
> things would work. Seems like a good possibility down the road
> sometime. Right now things work fine in regards to what's already been
> done. It's just a fine tuning matter to improve things whenever I find
> the time.
>
> Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> > Thanks. Let us know here if you hit any problems with the library or
> > if you have any feature requests. Sounds like you may be doing more
> > with Net::LDAP than just bind-authenticating users, so I'll be curious
> > to follow your progress.
> >
> > On 7/28/06, gregarican <greg.kujawa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > After unsuccessfully trying to compile a Ruby LDAP implementation a
> > > year or so ago I found another project on Rubyforge
> > > (http://rubyforge.org/projects/net-ldap/) that easily accomplished the
> > > task in my Windows One-Click Installer Ruby environment. It was as easy
> > > as typing in ruby setup.rb! I am so thankful for the good work
> > > performed by the project maintainer(s) and wanted to express this. Now
> > > I can work on automating some spam filtering with my upstream mail
> > > scanning host. And do so using Ruby rather than an alternative
> > > language. Once again, thanks for the job well done!
> > >
> > >
> > >
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