At IU, what is the Global Address List?
The Global Address List (GAL) is a directory service within the Exchange email system. The GAL contains information for all email users, distribution groups, and Exchange resources at Indiana University.
If you configure Outlook to use your Exchange account
natively (versus accessing Exchange through an IMAP
server), the GAL is the default address book. To access it,
from the Tools menu, select Address Book.
IMAP email clients like Outlook Express (or Outlook, if you configure it to use an IMAP server) don't access the GAL by default, but they can be configured to read it using LDAP (the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). To configure your IMAP email program to access the GAL using LDAP queries, follow the link for your client below:
- In Outlook, how do I search through the ADS Global Address List if I'm using IMAP?
- In Outlook Express for Windows, how can I find someone's email address?
- In Mac OS or Mac OS X, how do I find someone's email address with Outlook Express 5 or Entourage?
- In Mac OS X, how do I search for an address in the ADS Global Address List?
- In Entourage for Mac OS X, how do I access the ADS Global Address List?
Mozilla and Netscape 6 and above cannot access the IU GAL because these programs cannot make secure, authenticated LDAP queries.
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Last modified on August 29, 2007.
