auto complete To field with LDAP

[rick]

I have a ldap server setup with everyone's address in their. I would like to
start typing in the To: field and have it auto populate the rest in. I know
you can do this if they are already in your address book, but I would like it
to pull from the ldap database. Any ideas???

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook's autocomplete has nothing to do with the address store. It uses a
separate cache of names to which you've sent messages.

 

[rick]

I guess I figured that out, what my question is, is there any way to have it
pull from a ldap database somewhere.....

Outlook's autocomplete has nothing to do with the address store. It uses a
separate cache of names to which you've sent messages.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I have a ldap server setup with everyone's address in their. I would like
to
start typing in the To: field and have it auto populate the rest in. I
know
you can do this if they are already in your address book, but I would like
it
to pull from the ldap database. Any ideas???

 

[Brian Tillman]

I guess I figured that out, what my question is, is there any way to
have it pull from a ldap database somewhere.....

Since, as Russ said, the autocompletion doesn't ever "pull from" anywhere,
no. All it does is remember addresses you've resolved in past messages.

 

[Stephan Zitz]

Since, as Russ said, the autocompletion doesn't ever "pull from" anywhere,
no. All it does is remember addresses you've resolved in past messages.

 

[Stephan Zitz]

I use slapd as my LDAP backend and use it to serve contacts.

I can start typing a name in the To: field and press Ctrl-K. Outlook has no
problem resolving the name based on my ldap entries (and I can see my ldap
server responding, so this is not some cached value in outlook, but rather a
pull from my ldap server)

 

[Brian Tillman]

I use slapd as my LDAP backend and use it to serve contacts.

I can start typing a name in the To: field and press Ctrl-K. Outlook
has no problem resolving the name based on my ldap entries (and I can
see my ldap server responding, so this is not some cached value in
outlook, but rather a pull from my ldap server)

But you're not describing the same thing. The OP wanted his autocompletion
cache to get populated from the LDAP server. The autocompletion cache
doesn't work that way.

 

[Randy]

For more information on autocompletion and autoresolution, you may want to
review one of several documents at www.ingressor.com

Ran