LDAP

About

LDAP is an acronym for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

LDAP, also known as a Directory System Agent (DSA), allows you to locate organizations, individuals, and other resources such as files and devices in a network, regardless if you are on the Internet or on a corporate intranet. Additionally, it does not matter whether or not you know the domain name, IP address, or geographic whereabouts.

An LDAP directory can be distributed among many servers on a network, then replicated and synchronized regularly.

LDAP was developed at the University of Michigan; it is "lightweight" in contrast to DAP, a part of the older X.500 direct protocol for networks.

IceWarp Server's implementation of the LDAP is based on the OpenLDAP Project at http://www.openldap.org/, extended with SSL support. The whole LDAP server is installed and configured automatically during the IceWarp Server installation.

There are many resources (see "LDAP References") about LDAP on the Internet. It is definitely good idea to study some of them.…

LDAP utilizes Client-Server Architecture.

LDAP Server is installed with IceWarp Server and resides in the folder <InstallDirectory>\LDAP\

LDAP Client is usually your email client, or other application. Many current email clients, including Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, and Netscape Communicator are able to access this LDAP Server. See the Using LDAP section.