Subject: Re: Pine and X.500 directory.

From: [email-masked]
Date: 09 Oct 1996 08:12:08 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
you wrote:

> Our project is looking at using an X.500 server to simplify sending
> email (easy to find a user over several different lans etc.)
>  
> I was wondering how a pine user would take advantage of the availabilty
> of the X.500 server?
>  
> Would the global addressbook be re-loaded from the server, or can
> searching an addressbook (^T) in compose mode quickly access such
> a service?

	At the moment you'd have to do a directory sync between the
X.500 directory and the global addressbook.  Currently pine does not
support LDAP, ph, or other protocols which could directly interface 
with X.500.  

	I'm not sure what the plans are....but I believe pine4.0 will
eventually support IMSP.  If I'm not mistaken...and I could be...IMSP
could be linked with an X.500 directory to provide address information.

	Regards,

		Ed

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 16:55:47 +0800 (GMT)

> could be linked with an X.500 directory to provide address information.

	Sorry....I meant to say ACAP not IMSP.

	Regards,

		Ed

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Howie)
Date: 9 Oct 1996 22:06:14 GMT

[email-masked] wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]>
: you wrote:

: > Our project is looking at using an X.500 server to simplify sending
: > email (easy to find a user over several different lans etc.)
: >  
: > I was wondering how a pine user would take advantage of the availabilty
: > of the X.500 server?
: >  
: > Would the global addressbook be re-loaded from the server, or can
: > searching an addressbook (^T) in compose mode quickly access such
: > a service?

I wrote some interface code for Pine which allows you to query a local CSO
nameserver while in the addressbook of Pine. It's been running for over a year
with no problems. You may want to take a look at it as a prototype. Email me for 
code if you're interested. (be warned - it's "sledgehammer-grade" code :))

: 	At the moment you'd have to do a directory sync between the
: X.500 directory and the global addressbook.  Currently pine does not
: support LDAP, ph, or other protocols which could directly interface 
: with X.500.  
: 	I'm not sure what the plans are....but I believe pine4.0 will
: eventually support IMSP.  If I'm not mistaken...and I could be...IMSP
: could be linked with an X.500 directory to provide address information.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:10:54 -0700

> searching an addressbook (^T) in compose mode quickly access such

Currently you would need to construct a global addressbook from the
X.500 directory.  A conversion script run from cron should work
adequately.  Don't forget to run "pine -create_lu ..." as part of the
conversion procedure. 

> 	Sorry....I meant to say ACAP not IMSP.

Yes, we are currently planning to support ACAP in Pine 4.x.  We are
also considering support for LDAP or some other directory service... 

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