LSHTM Mac users

In the last blog post we talked about making use of the School email address book in Mac Mail it’s also possible to lookup email addresses in other mail clients and in this post we’ll look at setting this up in Mozilla Thunderbird.

First run Thunderbird and from the Tools menu select Account Settings as shown below:

Select Composition & Addressing and then Edit Directories on the lower right of the window. When prompted enter the settings shown in the window below:

As you exit ensure that the ‘LSHTM Directory’ is set as your default LDAP server as shown below:

You should now be able to lookup email addresses using the Thunderbird address book and as you type in the ‘to’ field Thunderbird should attempt to complete the email address.

If you’re not using the GroupWise client for Mac you’ll need to setup your mail client to talk to the Schools LDAP servers if you want to be able to lookup the email addresses of staff and students at the School.

To setup the School Address Book for Mac Mail complete the following steps:

Run the Address Book application and open Preferences from the menu, then select the Accounts button and click the + symbol, as shown below: Then add an LDAP account for the server ldap.lshtm.ac.uk as shown below:

Hopefully this blog will see a number of contributors posting on subjects that will be of interest to Mac users at the School. We’ll kick off with a number of posts looking at mail clients and how best to integrate them within the Schools existing services.

There will also be an opportunity to see a number of different mail clients in use at a drop in session for Mac users this Tuesday 29th Novemeber between 12:30-14:00 at the Bennett Room in the Keppel Street building.