Global Address List for Outlook Without Using Exchange 1

[jfunk74]

I am looking for any software that will allow me to create a Global Address List similar to Exchange. I would like to maintain this GAL and have multiple email clients accessing it. We are using Outlook 97, Outlook 2000, Outlook Express, and Outlook 2002 as our email clients. We connect to a POP3 server.

I tried using Sun ONE Directory Server (LDAP), but I was not able to pull Groups with all email addresses in that Group. For example, if I created a Marketing group and added 3 users in that group, the Directory will only give me Marketing in the results without the 3 users or their email addresses. If anyone knows how to create a Global Address List with Groups using Sun ONE Directory Server (LDAP), it would also be great!

 

[RustyRodders]

I have the same problem at the moment I am maintaining contact information in an excel spreadsheet emailing this to users to import in to the Outlook contact list. Not very good!

 

[jfunk74]

I am in the same boat as you. Here is a website I found and have been testing some of the software on it.

http://slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

I tried Outlook Inside and was not pleased. I tried adding an entry to the shared Contacts and it messed up a few things. Another thing is that when I uninstalled Outlook Inside, it is still in Outlook and you get errors because of the Add-Ins. I am currently testing Outlook Plus. So far so good.

 

[marcdoyle]

do you have active directory installed on your primary domain controller? If so, i have written some code which gets the details from active directory and imports them into a contacts list. I could probably change a few lines and have it working for you if you want.

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