On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 18:32 -0500, David Burleigh wrote: > What I'm really after is away to simplify and nearly automate the use > of pgp encryption for emails within our organization. Already we have > the robust mail clients like Evolution, Thunderbird, and Outlook (for > Windows users) access our common LDAP service for our organizational > contacts, so it would be convenient to have everyone's public key > hosted there also, and automatically used to encrypt mail to them.
[again: ~26+ years experience] We used to do the same - use LDAP as a contacts backend between diverse clients. The problem is that such a solution is a potent example of LDC (least common denominator) behavior. Beyond very basic functionality like name-and-email you can't get much; you certainly will not be able to get all the clients to inter-operate getting encryption keys from the addressbook - it just isn't going to happen. I know, when you set it up it seems like you are 99.44% of the way there to a good collaboration solution [essentially what we used to call "groupware"] - but that 0.56% is a big deal - and LDAP cannot deliver it. See a very old presentation of mine - http://www.wmmi.net/documents/LDA P105.pdf - concerning how even the basic schema used by Evolution, Thunderbird, and WAB [Outlook] don't match up across clients. :( Any notion that 'the world' would settle on a standard LDAP schema, and any notion that 'the world' had a genuine interest in real inter- operability, is now dusty history. Hyper-proprietary "cloud" services [called them "SaaS" back when I was wee lad] have crushed any momentum that existed concerning standards; or at least any standards that don't suit their purposes. You get closest to what you want using a WebDAV (CardDAV) server. Even then advanced features like key sharing are iffy. There are very pragmatic reasons that, eventually, almost all organizations standardize on a specific client. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
