133832 - problems with ldap directory lookup usability

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Rob Pettengill]

If Preferences / Mail & Newsgroups / Addressing / Address Autocompletion is
checked and the LDAP server is not reachable then all of mozilla hangs for a
long time!  If it is not checked and Select Addresses is chose from a mail
compose window, the ldap directory is visible as an address book but I could
find no way in the interface to look up an email address from ldap and add it to
the message.

Comment 1

[Leslie Kreizman]

Mozilla 1.6.  In creating a new address list, we have an ldap directory
installed that is used for lookup purposes for composing. When creating a new
address list, we can't just type a name and have it use both the personal (and
collected) address books and the ldap lookup. It only uses the local address
books.  As our University is going to Mozilla as a standard, this would be a
really helpful "bug" to get fixed. 

As a sidenote - in Thunderbird - it seems to just put the first ldap entry in
the address list, not give a choice - also not good.

Thanks for your help!

Comment 2

[simon annear]

marking this as worksforme

tested using moz 1.8b2 on windows

In regard to Comment #1, Leslie - please feel free to raise another bug for
these are different issues