LDAP address books for Thunderbird

LDAP(Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) directory is very useful and available from many institutions. Here is the illustration of using LDAP address books on Thunderbird

On the Thunderbird window

Open Address Book window by

- Click the Address Book icon, OR,

- Pull down Tools menu and select Address Book

Open the Directory Server Properties window by

Pull down the File menu, select New menu, select LDAP Directory…

Input

Name: [anything]

Hostname: [look at the list below]

Base DN: [look at the list below]

Port number: 389 (default)

Bind DN: [blank]

Institutions	Hostname	Base DN
Argonne	ldap.anl.gov	o=Argonne National Laboratory, c=US
Brookhaven	ldap.bnl.gov	o=Brookhaven National Laboratory, c=US
Case Western Reserve	ldap.case.edu	ou=People,o=cwru.edu,o=isp
CERN	ldap.cern.ch	o=cern,c=ch
Columbia	ldap.columbia.edu
Cornell	directory.cornell.edu	ou=People,o=Cornell University,c=US
FNAL	ldap.fnal.gov	o=fnal
Harvard	phonebook.harvard.edu	o=Harvard University, c=US
Lawrence Livermore	ldap.llnl.gov	o=Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, c=US
MIT	ldap.mit.edu	dc=mit,dc=edu
NYU	ldap.nyu.edu	o=New York University,st=New York,c=US
Princeton	ldap.princeton.edu	o=Princeton University,c=US
SLAC	ldap.slac.stanford.edu
Stanford	ldap.stanford.edu	cn=people,dc=stanford,dc=edu
UC Berkeley	ldap.berkeley.edu	ou=people,dc=berkeley,dc=edu
UC Davis	ldap.ucdavis.edu	ou=People,dc=ucdavis,dc=edu
UC Irvine	ldap.service.uci.edu	ou=University of California Irvine,o=University of California,c=US
UC Riverside	ldap.ucr.edu	ou=persons,dc=ucr,dc=edu
UC San Diego	ldap.ucsd.edu	o=ucsd
UC Santa Barbara	directory.ucsb.edu	o=ucsb
UC Santa Cruz	ldap.ucsc.edu	o=ucsc
U of Calgary	directory.ucalgary.ca	o=ucalgary.ca
UCLA	ldap.ucla.edu	ou=person,dc=ldap,dc=ucla,dc=edu
U of Chicago	ldap.uchicago.edu
U of Minnesota	ldap.umn.edu	o=University of Minnesota, c=US
USC	ldap.usc.edu	o=usc.edu