Using OD as a simple contact list for mail

Hello,
A probably stupid question but ... : is it possible to add, in Open Directory, informations like e-mail or mobile phone number WITHOUT creating an account in Open Directory ?
This is what i'm trying to do :
we have an OS X server with Open Directory and mail configured. Users access to their mail trough imap, are authenticated through the OD, and are using Thunderbird as a mail client. These users are new in our company, and we had to host their mailboxes on a separate system, not linked in any manner to our coporate mail system and -that's the problem- our corporate directory.
Thunderbird can be configured to access the LDAP directory on the OSX server, but the directory contains only the informations we entered for each account created in OD.
The question is then : is it possible to populate OD with informations extracted from our corporate directory WITHOUT having to create an account in OD for each contact ?
I've seen a thread speaking about passenger utility. This might be a workaround if I finally have to create an account for each, but it is too powerfull :)) my problem is very simple, I don't have any problem of password migration and so on ! I just want to populate OD with the name, firstname, mail adress and phone number of ... let's say .... 1200 persons !
Thanks,
PhC.
Message was edited by: cubenotdead

I've seen a thread speaking about passenger utility. This might be a workaround if I finally have to create an account for each, but it is too powerfull... let's say .... 1200 persons !
If you have 1200 accounts to create, Passenger is going to save you a huge amount of time on that task. As to it being too powerful, it would be nice if there were a few more features added to it to provide a bit more functionality.
To answer your question about account creation, yes you must create an account to be able to store user info such as e-mail addresses. You don't have to assigned home directories to the users, passwords, or even allow them to login to the account, but you must create the container object to hold the user information.

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