Network and Communications Services runs an LDAP service that lists all McGill staff. If your email program recognizes LDAP, this information is directly accessible to you. This is the same directory assistance information that you may already access via the McGill Directory web page. To illustrate the advantages of having your email client do the lookup, go through the following scenario for a user of Microsoft Outlook with LDAP enabled.
Most email clients perform in a similar manner.
You would like to send email to Toni Masi, but you don't remember his email address. This is clearly much faster than going through the McGill Phone Directory, or going to the Web page to look it up. Configure Your Email Program To configure the most popular email programs currently in use at McGill, please see these instructions. NCS Help Desk McGill is an international university whose main language of instruction is English. Located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, McGill's 22 faculties and professional schools offer over 300 programs at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels.