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Address
books are a great time saving feature. Frequently used
addresses may be stored here. LDAP servers (Often used
in companies and universities to make organization-wide
addresses easily available) are supported as well.
If
your Browser supports Javascript then you might want to
enable the JavaScript based address book under the Options
menu item. It is a really nifty little pop-up thing. Pure
HTML address lists are supported so even browsers without
Javascript support can use SquirrelMail without any loss
of function.
Put
a familiar name here. Something to help jog your memory.
Anything that will give you an accurate idea to whom
this email address belongs.
This
must be the persons' fully qualified email address.
Guessing here just won't cut it. There are three parts
to an email address. First is the recipients identifier,
such as "johnq". Next is the domain name section, which
could take the form "tayloru". Last comes the top level
domain, which could be one of a ton of things like au,
cc, us, com, org, net or might look like edu. So if
we put all those together it must be in the form of
johnq@tayloru.edu. If this is not correct you are likely
to get your mail back in the form of a bounced message.
This
is another field where you can put something to remind
you about who this person is. This is made to be longer
than the "Nick Name". For instance, if you meet a business
contact, you could put "Met at the Tomatoe Symposium".
These
two buttons allow you to select a single address and
then change any of the above fields, or delete the entry
entirely. You are only allowed to select one entry at
a time for the edit button.
5.5
- Add to Personal address book
Fill
in the fields as they are listed. The first three (Nickname,
E-mail address, and First name) must be filled in. Both
Last name and Additional info are optional.
LDAP
is a protocol for central unified storage and remote
access of information. For example; a university might
use LDAP as the single place where all students, staff,
and faculty email addresses are stored and made available.
If configured to use the universities LDAP server, SquirrelMail
would then be able to list all campus email address
(along with the other address book fields if available).
SquirrelMail's LDAP use is truly powerful in that it
combines your local address book and the LDAP
address server information to present all of the information
as if it was a single address book.
The
LDAP setting may be configured to use any LDAP server,
or disabled as a feature altogether. You will need to
talk to you system administrator about this feature
if you have specific questions.
LDAP
settings affect the entire SquirrelMail system; as a
result they must be set up or altered by someone with
administrative authority.
