On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:38 AM, raman <raman@google.com> wrote:

> Another thought re contact  management -- LDAP support in Emacs has been
> hard to configure -- EUCD fell by the wayside for nearly 10 years, and
> ldapsearch.el only supported older versions of LDAP. About a year or
> more ago there was some work done on EUDC, but getting EUDC to talk to
> various LDAP servers is still somewhat  of a black art --- and this gets
> worse when encountering LDAP servers that have security configured
> ---it's a complete mystery as to how to set up authentication. Getting
> some of this abstracted away by wrolo would make it a really nice
> front-end -- especially if one could achieve consistency across LDAP and
> BBDB.
>

This could be done, though authentication these days is always a bit
difficult.
We would need a test LDAP server though and corporate sponsorship for  such
work
wouldn't be a bad idea either :-)  I will add it to the new feature
wishlist for now as a
good idea.

See this wiki page for EUDC status:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EUDC

Bob