ISO: Email Page with LDAP User List

[timjowers]

Searched through sourceforge to no avail. Ideas?

Requirement:
1. Lists users from LDAP
2. Allows multiple selection as well as free text entry
3. Has To, CC, and BCC lists.
4. Message and subject can be configured programatically.
5. Returns mail object or else sends to SMTP server.
6. Handles errors robustly with good user feedback.
7. Easy to call from a web page. That is, is either an applet or,
preferably, HTML+JavaScript.

Seen this?

The need is to send a messsage from a web form to some email addresses.
The email addresses are from LDAP or entered manually. The message
includes various bits of data from the webform. The "mailto" tag has
been rejected as a solution.

Thanks,
TimJowers

 

[iksrazal]

Searched through sourceforge to no avail. Ideas?

Requirement:
1. Lists users from LDAP
2. Allows multiple selection as well as free text entry
3. Has To, CC, and BCC lists.
4. Message and subject can be configured programatically.
5. Returns mail object or else sends to SMTP server.
6. Handles errors robustly with good user feedback.
7. Easy to call from a web page. That is, is either an applet or,
preferably, HTML+JavaScript.

Seen this?

The need is to send a messsage from a web form to some email addresses.
The email addresses are from LDAP or entered manually. The message
includes various bits of data from the webform. The "mailto" tag has
been rejected as a solution.

Thanks,
TimJowers

Well, in the addison-wesley book "understanding and deploying ldap
directory services" - there is an example in java about how to add
directory services to the http://www.icemail.org/ java e-mail client.
The book show how to add email addresses to cc, bcc etc from ldap
lookups. The book is available in pdf.

As I understand the question, you already have an existing LDAP
directory and need to integrate it with an email client of some sort.

Please don't cross post.

hth,
iksrazal
http://www.braziloutsource.com/

 

[timjowers]

Thanks for the good reference.

I think you are wrong about cross-posting and interpret your respone to
mean I should post my question twice - once on each group - so Java
programmers do not have to read javascript responses and vice versa. I
have the same question for two largely disjoint sets of people - but
not totally disjoint. Posting to a newsgroup for each set is the only
way to address each set. But I appreciate your diligence towards proper
etiquette and care of resources (which I'm totally wasting with this
response I guess! E.g. your reference is a fat client. Fat
clients are not allowed so far on this project so a javascript solution
would be preferred. I do not have much empathy towards those that do
java and do not want to read javascript responses and vice versa as I
have to make them both work together on a daily basis!

TimJowers

 

[iksrazal]

Thanks for the good reference.

I think you are wrong about cross-posting and interpret your respone to
mean I should post my question twice - once on each group - so Java
programmers do not have to read javascript responses and vice versa. I
have the same question for two largely disjoint sets of people - but
not totally disjoint. Posting to a newsgroup for each set is the only
way to address each set. But I appreciate your diligence towards proper
etiquette and care of resources (which I'm totally wasting with this
response I guess! E.g. your reference is a fat client. Fat
clients are not allowed so far on this project so a javascript solution
would be preferred. I do not have much empathy towards those that do
java and do not want to read javascript responses and vice versa as I
have to make them both work together on a daily basis!

TimJowers

Two things:

1) Take a look at http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cross-post.html
.. Its simply a suggestion - I'm not really interested in a discussion
about it.

2) The reference to the fat client was simply to show you an open
source program in java that does ldap lookups for the cc, bcc etc
fields. It might be possible to re-use a few methods or classes from
there for a web app.

hth,
iksrazal
http://www.braziloutsource.com/

 

[Tim]

That's cool. Didn't know about setting the "followup to".

Nobody in the Javascript group had any ideas. I wrote up several
possibilities and referenced your link as one.

BTW, how much is BrazilOutsource? From my team and the subcontractors I
work with here are the going rates for programmers with 5-10 years
experience:
Kazakhstan: $5/hr (English: 7) (Bill $7-$10)
Ghana: $7/hr (English: 10) (Bill $10-$15)
India: $10/hr (English: 9) (Bill $15-$115 I've seen)
USA: $35/hr (English: 10) (Bill $45-$330 I've seen)
California: $45/hr (English: 10) (Bill $125-$330)
Of course Accenture et al are still gouging with $125/hr rates but with
a little extra effort managers can find employees at these rates or
within 50% with equal or better qualifications than what the big
consultancies offer.

TimJowers

 

[iksrazal]

That's cool. Didn't know about setting the "followup to".

Glad I could help.

BTW, how much is BrazilOutsource? From my team and the subcontractors I
work with here are the going rates for programmers with 5-10 years
experience:

Here in Brazil - at least here in the north east which is considerably
cheaper than São Paulo or Rio - we can easily beat India by going to
around US $ 8 to 9 per hour. I myself charge slightly more when I'm
the programmer. My company of course has overhead on top of that and
charges about US $12 to $15, depending on the infrastructure required
to support the project requested.

As far as english goes - I'm an expatriot North American and only hire
those who speak english at 9 or above.

Oh and thanks for the info about other countries - I'm always glad to
see where we stand in the globabl market.

iksrazal
http://www.braziloutsource.com/