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64: Addressbook and the LDAP Server
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.
Open the Address Book program, then open "Preferences" under the Address Book menu.
Click on the LDAP button.
Click on the "+" button
Name the server 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
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.
This article was last edited on Feb-14-2005 2:43 pm
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