Mike's Thoughts

So, after doing a ton of searching on the RIT site for instructions on how to use RIT’s LDAP address book on my local machine, I finally came up with the settings.

If you, like me, use Mozilla Thunderbird (grab a free copy from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/), then you will most likely want to be able to search the RIT directory for fellow students and professors.

To configure Thunderbird:

1. Click on the Address Book icon in Thunderbird
2. Click Tools -> Options
3. Click Composition -> Addressing, then click “Edit Directories”
4. Click the Add button
5. Enter the following information:
Name: RIT Directory
Hostname: ldap.rit.edu
Base DN: ou=people,dc=rit,dc=edu
Port Number: 389
Bind DN: uid=<your RIT username>,ou=people,dc=rit,dc=edu
Ensure the SSL checkbox is UNCHECKED
6. Click OK
7. Click the Directory Service checkbox, then click RIT Directory in the drop down box
8. Click OK.
9. Close Address Book, and restart Thunderbird
10. Click Write
11. Start entering a student’s name (like Michael). You should be prompted to enter a password. Enter your RIT account password, and if you choose to, select the remember my password option
12. You should now be able to use the auto complete feature to query the global address book
13. You can also search someone by clicking Contacts in the new message window, then selecting RIT Directory from the drop down window