Outlook – How to set up DavMail/LDAP in Thunderbird

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I've got DavMail running in Linux Mint so Thunderbird can access IMAP/SMTP/LDAP/CalDav. I've got everything working at this point except LDAP. Basically I can't figure out what the base DN should be. Where on my Windows XP box can I find this? I've tried a few things, and the address book always shows up blank once I add the LDAP server.

Best Answer

The "Base DN" when adding a new LDAP directory in Thunderbird should be ou=people as specified on this page [davmail.sourceforge.net].

Contrary to what the screenshot in those instructions shows (in French, no less), your "Bind DN" should might actually be your email address. At least this was the case for me, with the educational ("Live@edu") version of Office365.

Also, not sure if this is worth mentioning, but I did have a really annoying problem with Thunderbird on Mac OS X which caused me to think that the LDAP lookup wasn't working at all: the dialog box which prompted for the password (to access the DavMail server) got stuck under a bunch of other windows, and on the wrong virtual desktop (I believe Apple calls these "Spaces"). Once I "discovered" the password prompt and gave it my OWA password, LDAP lookups in the addressbook with Shift + ⌘ + F worked just fine.

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