Apple Address Book GAL Distribution Lists

chrissi86 · Post by **chrissi86** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:36 pm

Hey guys,
I've integrated my Gal in Apple Adress Book as LDAP-Directory Service as it is explained here:

Mail Client LDAP Configuration - Zimbra :: Wiki
My problem is that I can find all "Accounts" but not a "Distribution list". In Thunderbird it works pretty fine. So it must have something to do with Apple Address Book.
Have someone figured it out yet?
Christian

ewilen · Post by **ewilen** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:41 pm

What version of MacOS are you using? It works fine for me using 10.7.
However, unlike the the wiki instructions, I left the Search Base with the greyed default value: ou=people, o=my company

chrissi86 · Post by **chrissi86** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:43 pm

I use 10.6 Snow Leopard, but I have also tested it on a 10.7 Lion machine and it does not work either (when I search the GAL I see all accounts but no distribution list). So it is a little bit strange because with thunderbird it just works.

I thought it had something to do with my Mac but perhaps it is a server side problem.

ewilen · Post by **ewilen** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:49 pm

Just to be clear, under Lion the GAL shows up in Address Book under the "Directories" category. Make sure you have that selected when you do your search.

chrissi86 · Post by **chrissi86** » Fri May 04, 2012 5:03 pm

So now I have updated my Mac to Lion (I have reinstalled it from scratch) but it does not work either.

When I search the LDAP-Tree in the directory section, the Apple-Adressbook fiends all "normal" User-Accounts but no Distribution-Lists.

As I have explained above with Thunderbird it works quite fine (with a normal LDAP-Directory).
I don't understand this behavior but it would be nice if it would work because we need the mac support as well.