Software Tip:
How LDAP can make e-mail more convenient.
By John Weible You are probably
familiar with the campus Ph service that’s been around for
years. It is essentially an electronic phone directory of all
employees and students at UIUC. CITES (formerly CCSO) also now
has an LDAP service with much of the same information in it. Since
Ph was a locally developed product, there’s not much support
for it in software applications. Things are different with LDAP.
When you need to email someone on campus, do you get tired of
having to go to an external phone directory (either print or electronic)
to look up their address, then go back and add it to the message
or to your personal address book? Then you should try this…
Most email programs now have the ability to query LDAP servers
for names and email addresses. CITES has also created documentation
on how you can make this happen. It takes a few minutes to configure
your email program, and from then on, it will automatically look
up campus addresses, regardless of whether the person is in your
own address book.
See http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/ldap/email.html
for the instructions.
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