while addressing an Email, my contacts do not default instead I get this
message "cannot contact LDPA directory server (81)". I acknoledge the message
and then a window appears where i then can select contacts so i can continue.
News to anyone?

TBird1969 wrote:
while addressing an Email, my contacts do not default instead I get
this message "cannot contact LDPA directory server (81)". I
acknoledge the message and then a window appears where i then can
select contacts so i can continue. News to anyone?

Even though you may be using Word as an email editor, this problem really
isn't related to Word -- it's a bad configuration in the email program
you're using (which is... ???). It doesn't help that you also got the
acronym scrambled; it's "LDAP" which stands for Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol, a method for communication between mail programs and address books
(http://www.gracion.com/server/whatldap.html).

If you're using Outlook for email, redo its configuration according to the
instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=287563. If that doesn't
help, post your question in an Outlook newsgroup (or whatever newsgroup is
devoted to your other email program).

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Jay Freedman
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