[389-users] Importing Thunderbird AddressBook into LDAP

Christopher Wood christopher_wood at pobox.com
Sun May 22 19:57:24 UTC 2011


My short trite answer is: 
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ#Troubleshooting

    * What errors are you getting?
    * What version are you running?
    * When you ldapsearch on one of your pre-existing entries, does it
      look like what you posted below?


On 22/05/11 03:10 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> I have installed the 389 DS on F14 x86_64 OK and can see a few people
> that I added with the 389 Console in both Thunderbird and Squirrelmail
> but now I want to do a bulk import of my TB addressbook into the 389 DB.
>    I can export the TB AB to an ldif file but it fails to import using
> the 389 "Import Databases" fn - I presume I have to somehow massage the
> LDIF file to make it compatible?  Here is a complete record:
>
> dn: cn=Tina XXXXXX,mail=TXXXXXX at nYYYYYYY.com
> objectclass: top
> objectclass: person
> objectclass: organizationalPerson
> objectclass: inetOrgPerson
> objectclass: mozillaAbPersonAlpha
> givenName: Tina
> sn: Franks
> cn: Tina XXXXXX
> mozillaNickname: tinaX
> mail: TXXXXXXX at nYYYYYYY.com
> modifytimestamp: 48a5a25d
>
> I guess one of the objectlasses should be "People"?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
>    

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