Hello and a question

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 06:19 -0700, Diana Briscoe wrote:
> Hello! I’m the IT Manager of a small publishing
company in bond and
> we have recently moved our e-mail server to CommuniGate
from
> FirstClass. 
> 
> I have a series of problems as a result, which are
probably very
> easily solved by the more knowledgeable, but I would
appreciate a
> steer because I find the online manual very difficult
to find things
> in. At least it tells me that I can do things, but not
HOW to do them,
> which is frustrating.
> 
> We are mostly running Macs with Office X, so using
Entourage X (with
> the latest update) at present. However, there is a good
chance we may
> be moving up to Office 2004 shortly. I have one person
running
> Thunderbird, but I don’t like the way it produces
duplicate Trash /
> Deleted Items or Sent / Sent Items folders and would
rather stick with
> Entourage if possible. 

You can in Thunderbird change which folder it uses so you
can use Sent,
Sent Items, or whatever you'd like.  The same for the Trash
folder I
believe as well.


> 
> I have imported the various accounts’ address books
from FirstClass
> into their computer address books in Entourage.
However, I can see
> that there is a Contacts folder in each person’s
account and I have
> read the earlier posts about how to get contacts in
there. This is
> reasonably easy (for once) from FirstClass as it
exports its contacts
> as one huge .vcf card. What I can’t see how to do is
to get the
> account to save new contacts to the account’s
contacts folder on the
> e-mail server and not to the Entourage one on the
person’s own
> computer.
>
> I also want to import the company’s general address
book in a form
> that everyone can access it (but just one person will
administer it).
> I really don’t understand how I should do this
although I can see from
> the Manual that I should be able to do it.
> 


The server side contacts are only accessible through either
the WebMail
interface, or through the MAPI connector.  Though Stalker
has said in
the past that they would have a version of the MAPI
connector for
Entourage, as of now it is only for Outlook for Windows.

If you want Server-Side address books you'll have to use
LDAP (for a
system wide address book, not for individual address books).
 We don't
use server side address books here so unfortunately I can't
help you
with the LDAP specifics.

> Apologies for asking very basic questions and thanks in
advance for
> any advice on how to solve them.
> Yours ever
> Diana
> 

You'll find that there are a lot of VERY informative people
here on this
list.  I find the list, and its archives, to be very useful
when I need
to do something different in CGP.

> 
> Diana Briscoe
> Michael O'Mara Books Ltd,
> 9 Lion Yard, Tremadoc Rd, bond SW4 7NQ
> 44 (0)207 720 8643 
> diana.briscoemombooks.com
> See our website at  www.mombooks.com and
www.busterpreviews.com
> Disclaimer: http://www.mo
mbooks.com/disclaimer.html
> 
> 
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UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator
Computer Services
State University of New York at New Paltz

chauvetpnewpaltz.edu
845-257-3828
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