Re: Internal email for small 400 customer

Hi Phil,

here is the way it works for me:

you create another addressbook besides your personal ab with messenger 
(ctrl-shift-2,
then file/new addressbook), this generates an empty file xyz.na2. You have to 
put in one
single contact by hand so that the list in that book ist not empty, this will 
netscape let
accept this file. This is now your template, you can copy it on a shared folder 
in your net,
rename it and give everybody access rights to it.
Then you add to the prefs.js config file of netscape the following lines:

// Netscape User Preferences
// This is not a generated file!  You got to edit for your purposes!!!


user_pref("ldap_2.servers.test.csid", "iso-8859-1");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.test.description", "test");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.test.dirType", 2);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.test.filename", "K:\\shared_dir\\addressbook.na2");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.test.isOffline", false);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.test.locale", "German_Germany");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.test.position", 3);
user_pref("ldap_2.version", 2);

In this example the name of the addressbook that appears in messenger is "test" 
and
the shared drive/folder is "K:\shared_dir\" while the file itself is 
"addressbook.na2"
Notice the double backslashes in prefs.js, netscape only accepts this format.
The rest you better take from your template you created with the method above,
because these depend much on your local version of nescape ...

HTH and gets you going for a test, the only problem I found is that users 
sometimes
get confused about what is their personal addressbook and what is public, you 
could
of course set your network access rights to write protect that *.na2 file or at 
least hinder
people from deleting it.

Regards from germany, Philipp

Phil schrieb:

> Yes, I'd like to see an example.
>
> Phil
>
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> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Philipp Rusch
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 12:26 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Internal email for small 400 customer
>
> OK- if we are searching for THE cheapest solution for a real small customer
> WITHOUT the virus problematic of all the outlook-variants, then I would
> go for netscape messenger as Pat Barber mentioned before.
> It is easy to define a public adressbook in a shared folder somewhere on the
> LAN, the clients can easily add, edit and delete entries through their
> normal
> interface. This "trick" is well known, all you have to do is a little
> hacking in
> prefs.js file, which you then use as a template to install the clients in
> your net.
> If anybody is interested, I can supply an example.
> I tried LDAP support on AS/400 in combination with netscape messenger,
> but I found it way to difficult to maintain, especially in a small shop.
>
> HTH, Philipp
>
> Neil Palmer schrieb:
>
> > Back around 1997 IBM used to ship Lotus Mail with Client Access.  Is
> > anyone using that ?  Is it still shipped with Client Access ?
> > Anyone have any recommended solution for a small 400 account that wants
> > internal email only, using the 400 as POP and SMTP server, and wanting an
> > email client with a small footprint (to use on some old PC's) - and
> > requiring shared address book capability ?
> >
> > ...Neil
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