Re: LDAP for Contacts

[Pyronick]

Gmail needs LDAP as a finishing touch, I can't recommend Google
services to anybody if they aren't complete.
I'm a happy Gmail user, but I agree that LDAP support is vital for
Gmail to be a complete e-mail messaging service. Maintaining contacts
is a very important feature, I would imagine it is much more important
than integrating calender services, etc.

IMAP already made Gmail a very interesting service. I have convinced a
lot of people that they can continue using Thunderbird, Outlook,
Evolution, etc when they make a Gmail account. Until someone asked me
if they could have access to the same contacts library...

[Fourminux]

Two-way Synchronization of contacts between a Mail Client
(Thunderbird, Outlook, iMail, Evolution) and Gmail is a must !
It's not possible that the folder view disappears when exporting
contacts from GMail to Thunderbird.
Folders=Groups
Groups=Mailings
Please stop the mess with contact management. It's a Hell in itself.

[Andinator]

LDAP is the missing link. I'll beta test it if you need...

On Oct 23, 9:55 am, felnik wrote:
> Need no further mention.
>
> Probably a very simple thing for google to implement. WIth this, the
> gmail contacts could be used as a repository for contacts, and by
> using IMAP for the mail, gmail would be a world class webmail with
> contact sync to any mail client supporting imap and active directory
> or LDAP for contact management.

[Brausepaul]

LDAP support is definately needed.

[Kevin J. Wangler]

Hope this is implemented in the near future.

[Shimy Lev]

More than agree :-)

Please...



On Nov 19, 4:48 pm, Gilbert wrote:
> I agree. The LDAP feature would be great!

[sc0ttbeardsley]

+1

LDAP[S] for GMail contacts would be great. I'd also like to be able to
add a lookup query for my own LDAP[S] server inside GMail. That way my
corporate address book can be used with my GMail account.

BTW, yes the S is important, SSL is a must for this feature.

Scott

[Matt "Sparky" Smith]

Concur! LDAP would help those of us behind giant enterprise firewalls
get to our google contacts from our work accounts.

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[Paul Rigor]

+1

On May 26, 7:06 am, Priyadarsan Venugopalan wrote:
> Need LDAP access on Gmail Contacts.
>
> On May 4, 10:21 pm, Sergio S. wrote:
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> > I opened a new topic here:http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-labs-suggest-a-labs-feature/brow...
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> > On May 4, 9:35 am, Sergio S. wrote:
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> > > .................................
> > > Maybe we should start a new topic for this?!

[johnmartin]

yes please.

[Vector64]

+1 for LDAP (with SSL too)!

[Furyhunter]

Please add LDAP support! I'd like to use an email client as opposed to
the web client at home for speed purposes, but not having access to my
contacts list makes it rather silly.

[Ales Kladnik]

LDAP pleaseeee!
I would love to use my corporate LDAP contacts database in Gmail.

[ross]

+1 

LDAP for GMail contacts would be great.

[wyldraven]

+1 - I too use Thunderbird for my desktop email client (for my non-Google email accounts) and would benefit greatly from LDAP access to my contacts. All of my contact information is kept in Google. I use Android phones, and the automatic sharing of those cloud based contacts is fantastic. Now give me an open source solution to sharing my contacts with the desktop applications.

Thanks

Ernie Logan Jr.

[JoeH]

+1

Please give us LDAP for GoogleMail

[firai]

Give us LDAP over SSL please! On desktop I would very much love to not
how to bend over backwards to get the address book on Thunderbird. On
mobile I already have another corporate Exchange account setup so I
can't get the contacts at all.

[Marc Roelofs]

The absence of LDAP is the dealkiller when trying to convince people to migrate all their mail/contacts to the Google cloud. Many of them will never ever use a webclient like Gmail and want to stay with their own local email-client. After convincing them of all the benefits of cloud-centralized storage of their stuff it is always a great disappointment when they discover they still have to separately manage their mail-contacts.

If Google is serious about the cloud they should give us LDAP asap.

[Chris Lindee]

+1

On Jan 11, 2:07 pm, Marc Roelofs wrote:
> The absence of LDAP is *the* dealkiller when trying to convince people to

[Bill Anon]

I agree with everyone that we would prefer LDAP support so clients
like Thunderbird can directly access our Google contacts. So, yes, I
totally support this effort to lobby Google on this.

However, Google makes money only by getting us to use the Gmail
website and see advertising. There's little financial incentive for
them to do this. Unless they start to see that we would still use the
web interface enough (e.g., while traveling) to see some ads of
theirs, they're unlikely to come around on this issue.

Solutions in the meantime? Well....

For now, I'm using the Zindus extension for Thunderbird discussed
elsewhere in this thread to import my Google contacts into
Thunderbird. It's really not that hard to setup and it seems to work
fairly well bi-directionally -- both importing from Google into T'Bird
and exporting new T'Bird contacts into Google.

Also, Apple's Address Book program in Mac OS X seems to interface with
Google contacts very well -- and I think it's also two-way synching.
It's trivial to setup right out of the box. No add-ons, extensions,
or downloads necessary. It's right there as an option in the Address
Book Preferences.

- Bill

[steve_a123]

Yes, PLEASE Google will you provide LDAP support? It's the one thing
that's crying out to be implemented!

It's often noted that Google don't have a financial incentive to
provide it because then we'd use clients, and that is valid. However,
maybe we can make them think about this slightly differently. Consider
all the *new* customers they could get if only they implemented LDAP.
If there are many thousands around the world that are holding off
switching to Gmail (because of the lack of LDAP), they would then
switch over and then they would have thousands of people at least
sometimes (or maybe lots of times) using the web interface that they
didn't have before.

[Gedrean]

Must Concur, +1 to this, Want LDAP support badly!

[Bash]

There are about 124 discussions already regarding LDAP.
I felt that starting a new one would do no good, but felt the urge to
reply to a current thread to give my +1 vote.

Google may not have incentive to host LDAP for Google Contacts only to
have it used on other non-Google clients such as Thunderbird.
However, there should be plenty of incentive to use the Gmail web
interface to pull LDAP contact info from other services.

For example, my university uses Microsoft Exchange for its 50,000+
students, faculty, and staff.
The LDAP can be accessed in Outlook or on OWA to search for anyone in
the school.
Thunderbird can be used with the school's LDAP to do the same thing
once you plug in the server information.
I don't want to use Outlook/OWA or Thunderbird to look up contacts. I
want to consolidate all of my email efforts into Gmail.
If Google could pull LDAP the same way Thunderbird does, then we could
compose email within the Gmail web interface.
This allows us to see the ads in Gmail, so no money is lost. Sending
more mail from Gmail also means more of those "Invite Bob to Gmail"
messages.

It doesn't solve the other LDAP request, but at least this scenario
seems feasibly possible.

[SouSou]

+1 for ldap

[Jonathan Eiseman]

+1 I'd also like to see ldap support so I can access my contact list from Thunderbird

[Teejays]

+1
I'm also waiting for this feature to become available.

The GCalDaemon project seems to be outdated and no longer working.
(http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/)
Access to our Google Apps contacts from within Outlook or Thunderbird
through an LDAP-server would be a great feature.

[Ron Swartzendruber]

I agree with this suggestion. From what I understand, Google is much more likely to benefit when users can pull contacts from other LDAP directories into Gmail, rather than letting people pull their Google contacts out to non-Google apps.

Lots of organizations have directories accessible via LDAP.  If a Google Apps domain manager could configure an LDAP search for users within the organization, and if users of the domain would get results from that search in addition to the normal Google contacts search, that would be great.

It would also be a nice feature to advertise to organizations considering switching to a Google Apps domain; it's one more thing that would enable users to be migrated gradually, without losing the ability to search for anybody in the whole organization rather than just those who have Google accounts on the domain.  It would certainly help us get more users to move to our new Google domain by choice rather than force.

Really I would love to see LDAP access run both ways, but pulling external LDAP directories into Google contacts sounds more feasible than making Google contacts data available via LDAP to outside apps.  The latter would mean Google having to provision a ton of servers and bandwidth for a service that ultimately reduces Google's income from ads and so forth.

[Ron Swartzendruber]

In case it's not already clear, I meant I agree with Bash's suggestion on Feb 7.

[davidjs]

+1 for ldap

[Anonymous_1413663]

this doesn't exactly make sense.

[Alex Canton]

Yes I want this feature! So I can sync my contacts!

[Jazz13]

I'm actually kind of desperate for LDAP access to Google Contacts. I
have a VoIP desk phone in my home office that has LDAP support and I'd
like to have it access Google Contacts so I have direct access to my
contact list. This would mean that I have the same contacts on my
desk phone and my Android mobile phone.

Definitely +1 for me on this..

[dsm2005]

+1... Yes, please!

[Jonuday]

Another vote for LDAP

[hihp]

+1 for LDAP

[jskahen]

+1 for LDAP

Especially within Google Apps. We would much prefer to fully retire
the 9 year old machine that is still being used as our LDAP system
since we moved to GApps.

[jskahen]

[Maarten Billemont]

+1 for LDAP

Consider that with the advent of iCloud, everybody who's using Google
Contact sync today on OS X is unable to use their iCloud contacts.
Vice versa, anyone using iCloud for contacts cannot access their
google apps contacts anymore.

This is no longer a feature request so much as a bugfix; thank Apple.

[memin]

+1 for LDAP.

[Jez Oldfield]

+1 for LDAP

[Marius]

Any news for now?

+1 for LDAP!

On 27 Nov. 2011, 21:14, Jez Oldfield wrote:
> +1 for LDAP

[Ilya]

LDAP would be really great!

[Tal RE/MAX SKY (Israel)]

We are looking for LDAP solutions with two levels of permissions
1. Admin to add entries (people)
2. To view existing entries (people)

Each entry (person) have categories / groups

Does Google has such? If not, can you please recommand freeware /
shareware LDAP server for Windows machine?
What ports should I open in the firewall for LDAP?
Can you please help me to find C# examples to work with LDAP?

Thanks,
Tal
t...@remax-sky.co.il

[Fernando Miguel]

In case ppl still dont know, it's now available

https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=106368 

[Max]

+1 for LDAP

Or is it available already?

[StasCarpeDiem]

On 27 фев, 13:11, Fernando Miguel wrote:
> > In case ppl still dont know, it's now available
>
> https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=106368

Oh, come on! People cannot read anymore?
Google provides access to YOUR LDAP servers via Google Apps Directory
Sync. It has got nothing to do with getting access to GMail address
book as a LDAP directory.

Anyway, it would be great if Google added LDAP for GMail!

[Darrel Yurychuk]

+1 LDAP (Google as server)

I would think this would be something Google would have implemented already given their support of open standards.

This would help with a client who wants to keep their regular Mac address book separate from their contacts on their Google Apps for Business account.

--
Darrel

On Friday, October 23, 2009 8:55:00 AM UTC-7, felnik wrote:

Need no further mention.

Probably a very simple thing for google to implement. WIth this, the
gmail contacts could be used as a repository for contacts, and by
using IMAP for the mail, gmail would be a world class webmail with
contact sync to any mail client supporting imap and active directory
or LDAP for contact management.

[Angelo Pantano]

still after 3 years that this was posted, no solution?

unbelievable, what's the problem in exposing an ldap service to us for
synchronization?

[wikkeddemon]

according to what i have read before, this LDAP is not supported by google

[Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA]

Le mercredi 25 avril 2012 11:00:32 UTC-3, wikkeddemon a écrit :

according to what i have read before, this LDAP is not supported by google

Which is the reason why we are requesting Google to support it.

[Patrick Bowman]

C'mon, Google. LDAP support wouldn't be hard, and it would extend its utility, making it an obvious contact repository. There are lots of articulate requests here. If you don't plan to support it, at least tell someone why.

[yida Guo]

LDAP is seriously needed!

在 2009年10月23日星期五UTC+1下午4时55分00秒，felnik写道：

[Rinpoche]

Yet another voice in favor of this feature.  This is a particularly minor service to offer and would dramatically increase the number of contacts people move to Google (good for Google, I think. . .).

[hgh...@gmail.com]

+1

[1slim_jim]

+2

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 3:13:20 PM UTC-6, (unknown) wrote:

+1

[Roman Rusakov]

+1

But as I understand it, since google not made this feature for years then no longer will. Probably not their policy.

[Philip Hoflack]

+1

I'd really enjoy LDAP

[Steve Bateman]

I have a gmail account (supporting my android devices) but don't use the email/contacts, as I have my personal email with fastmail. Why? More feature-rich. Particularly with the contacts, I can setup LDAP access to them from my Outlook client and together with IMAP, send personal emails from my client while (in parallel), processing work emails.

 

I can't do this with gmail. IMPA works, but LDAP access is a big miss. With LDAP I could setup my gmail in Outlook and have a single place for my personal contact info - right now, I have to have them in fastmail *and* gmail.

 

PLEASE, add LDAP access to gmail contacts!!!

[Phil Burrows]

it has been 5 years since LDAP access has been requested, do we have this feature enabled so we integrate our gmail contacts?

[Brian Long]

+1 would like to see this feature

[小帅]

 i hope i can tey LDAP

在 2009年10月23日星期五UTC+8下午11时55分00秒，felnik写道：

[Sean Howell]

Yes, LDAP for contacts, would integrate with our phone system / CRM everything else...

[Q.G.]

[Martin Stolpe]

+1

[jratalon]

+1

[Frank Martinez]

+1

[William North]

Why not use a free cloud-based DaaS (Directory as a Service) like JumpCloud?

https://jumpcloud.com/blog/business-gmail/

[Goofy 235]

It's been almost SIX years now since the first posting...

Give it a nice burial and move on...

Like use the Google Search...plenty of answers out there!

(copy/paste from an old posting)

In case you think someone from Google monitors this forum or this is a popularity contest, take a look at:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail-labs-suggest-a-labs-feature/Wz55gyU03h4

So, keep on asking, you never know...BUT, don't hold your breath :-)

[Félix García]

I agree Goofy,

I think enough time has passed to get this feature working.

There should be a reason why Google doesn't want to implement it. Pity no one from them says anything.

[felnik]