# Address Book Preferences

Balsa supports the use of multiple address books, both local VCARD and remote LDAP address books, both of which can be configured here. GnomeCard also uses VCARD address books, so this allows Balsa to share address books with other GNOME applications.

Balsa also supports LDIF address books, and can be built to use GPE address books, when SQLite is available, and Rubrica address books. Which types are supported depends on how Balsa was built.

The main portion of the preferences page is occupied by the list of current address books for Balsa. The list shows the type of address book, the name, and whether it is included in automatic alias expansion when typing new messages. There are also several buttons that manipulate the list of address books:

# Add

Using this adds a new address book for Balsa to use to find addresses. If you click it, a drop-down menu of the supported address book types is shown. Click one to begin the process. Balsa pops up a dialog, which, if you choose VCARD, looks like this:

# VCARD Address Book Dialog

With LDAP support, the dialog looks somewhat different, offering options to set the location of the directory instead of a file.

# LDAP Address Book Dialog

In order to use a LDAP address book, you need to know the host name of the LDAP server. Depending on the server configuration, you may need also so called Base Domain Name which identifies your particular department. You can always try leaving Base Domain Name field empty and a default value will be used (OpenLDAP stores the default Base Domain Name in

/etc/openldap/ldap.conf). If this does not work, you may need to ask your administrator for the value of this. The usual values are usually similar to: “dc=theochem,dc=KTH,dc=se” or “o=Theoretical Chemistry, c=SE”.

# Modify

To vam omogoči spremembo lastnosti izbranega imenika.

# Spremeni imenik

Mogoče je spremeniti tako ime kot mesto za katerikoli imenik. Izberete lahko tudi ali je vsebina imenika uporabljena za poskus samodejnega dokončanja naslova pri pošiljanju sporočila.

# Delete

Izbriši izbrani imenik.

# Set as Default

Nastavi izbrani imenik kot privzet.