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64: Addressbook and Searchable BSU Email Database

Are you using Mail to check your BSU email? Do you want an easy way to look up your professor's email or even a classmates? This is the solution for you.

1. Open the Address Book program, then open "Preferences" under the Address Book menu.

2. Click on the LDAP button.

3. Click on the "+" button

4. Fill in all of the fields as follows:

Name: BSU LDAP
Server: ldap.bsu.edu

Search base: cn=users,dc=bsu,dc=edu
Port: 389
Scope: subtree
Authentication: Simple
Username and Password: your BSU username/password

5. Click save.

Now any time you compose a message in Mail if you type in someone's last name it will automatically pull up everyone with that name.

For information on setting up Apple Mail, please see our Configure Mail KB article.

This article was last edited on Apr-10-2009 11:29 am
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