Use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol for addresses

You can use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to provide a public address book based on the system directory.

Before V5R2, clients that supported Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI), such as Microsoft^® Exchange can use a public address book. The address book was created by data mapping from the system distribution directory to the POP server address book cache. At V5R2, MAPI support is no longer available on the iSeries™ server.

You can use IBM^® Directory Server for iSeries (LDAP) to replace the function previously served by MAPI. Using LDAP, you can provide a single address book that can be accessed by all users from the client application.

In order to use LDAP, complete the following tasks:

Get started with Directory Server.
Publish information to the directory server.
Configure your mail client to use LDAP. The steps to complete this task will depend on your mail client (Netscape or Eudora, for example). Edit the properties in your mail client to specify the LDAP server as the Directory Server for mail addressing.