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Address Book Agent - Configuration

IMPORTANT: You must restart the msgldap executable to effect any changes in the Address Book Agent's configuration. For information on loading and unloading the NetMail® Agents, see the Novell® NetMail Administration Guide at http://www.novell.com/documentation.

 

Configuration

Database Creation Every ______ Days

How often (in days) the Address Book Agent recreates the address book index. The default is one day. The maximum setting is 99 days.

To speed up LDAP queries, the Address Book Agent maintains an index of all the information queried for any user in its supported NMAP contexts--specifically, the users' e-mail addresses, first names, last names, and full names.

Although the index contains the user's address book information, the Address Book Agent only uses the index to locate users in the tree. By default, all address book information, including the user's e-mail address, is taken from the User object in NDS®. This means the address book is always as current as NDS.

IMPORTANT: ModWeb does not verify that the domain listed in the User object's Internet E-mail Address property is a supported Global or Hosting domain. Therefore, it is recommended you use the Alias Agent to populate this property or manually ensure the domain is valid.

If the user's e-mail address is not defined in the User object's Internet E-mail Address property, the Address Book Agent dynamically generates the e-mail address as follows:

  • If the user belongs to a Hosting Domain, the Address Book Agent simply uses the username as the e-mail address.

  • If the user belongs to a Global Domain, the Address Book Agent generates the e-mail address from the username and the user's Internet domain (username@domain).

To identify the user's Internet domain, the Address Book Agent looks in the following objects:

  • If the user is associated with a Parent object, the Address Book Agent looks in the Parent object's Global Domains list.

  • If no Global Domain is configured in the Parent object, the agent looks for the user's Container Domain.

  • If no Container Domain is configured, the Address Book Agent uses the messaging server's Official Domain.

 

Port

Specifies the LDAP port assignment. LDAP applications (such as the Modular Web Client Address Book) access the Address Book Agent via this port for address book lookups.

The Address Book Agent's default LDAP port assignment is 389, or on Novell Nterprise™ Linux Services, port 52389.

 

LDIF Export

Configures the Address Book Agent to automatically create an LDIF (LDAP Data Interchange Format) file of all user information, except information or accounts protected by User object privacy settings. Use this file to distribute address book information to messaging systems (such as remote sites) that do not have access to the Address Book Agent.

The LDIF file is created as ADDRBOOK.LDF in the following directories:

  • sys:\PUBLIC on NetWare® systems

  • \DBF\Shared on Windows* systems

  • /usr/lib on Linux* systems

The LDIF file is automatically regenerated every time the Address Book Agent updates its user index.

 

Allow Personal Addressbook Search

An LDAP search searches the user's personal address book if the LDAP connection is authenticated.

For example, to authenticate the LDAP connection in Outlook Express*, the user must configure "My LDAP Server requires authentication" and type his or her NDS username and password.

 

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