04.06.98
How We Should Do It
I’m putting together a Ph server for the Museum. Rather than implementing it on UNIX, I’m mocking it up on my Mac using a Beta of Eudora’s Mail Server which has the Ph-based Directory services built-in. The Eudora mail client defaults to using Ph for Directory Services, and I hate having to look up everyone’s e-mail address, so I hope this solution will work.
Apparently there’s no stand-alone Ph server out there for Macs (or Windows for that matter). It looks like everyone’s trying to move to LDPA or LPDA for Directory Services. But most everyone here uses Eudora, which doesn’t support LPDA yet.
Hopefully I’ll be able to prove the worth of Ph by the time the Beta Server runs out in early June. Then I can say ‘See, my IS friends, this is how we should do this!’ 
The User and Groups services on the Eudora Server is _really_ slow. I guess it’s creating and eliminating each records one by one. There’s about 200 addresses that I’ll be importing into the server. It’s taking about 15 minutes each time I have to move the accounts in and out (trying to get the import data lined up right in the tab delimited fields.) So far I’ve waited a total of 30 minutes. The current run should be the last. Time for lunch.
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