CardDAV enhancement - Searchable, readonly (not synced) address books (ldap style)
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(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)
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(Reporter: Lukas.Wringer, Unassigned)
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Steps to reproduce:
Some groupware solutions (like SOGo) allow the creations of a kind of global adressbooks as readable/searchable only carddav addressbooks (simmilar to the ldap feature).
At the moment those would get fully synced offline with the new implementation but with a Adressbook with tenthousands or more of addresses - this may not be ideal...
Cardbook and the SOGo plugins (not sure about TBSync) did allow for those types to be used autocompletion and as searchable only addressbook.
LDAP is not suitable as areplacement - as for one thing TB crashes / hangs when the server is not reachable but the computer is not offline at the same time - and the ldap port is very offten blocked in public networks (not fixable).
Actual results:
Addressbooks of any size get fully synced (limited to 200 entries, but this may be serversided?)
Expected results:
The addressbooks should be made only online searchable - either by a boolean setting or by (configurable) sizelimit.
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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So, after the initial steps are done now, as the carddav feature is released we could start talking about enhancements?
Maybe a bit clarification: What I/we need is a good way to use extremely large address books that would make absolute no sense to download and sync them completely. We talk about 35000 or more entries - like for an entire institution (I found out that the 200 limit I mentioned is indeed server sided) so a searchable "online adress book" would be the way to go - i think.
Maybe you could work together with SOGo on this? - Their Connector plugin was able to do this on TB 68. But afterwards the new release(s) lost this feature because it started to depend on your native implementation of CardDav...
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Comment 2•2 years ago
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I would like to second this.
We have not only 20,000 users, we also have constant high fluctuation here at the University.
Every semester there are approx. 2,000 to 2,500 new students and staff members, and of course the same amount leaves our University.
To keep those in sync on every client is just a waste of server resources and bandwidth.
Also every synchronisation would take ages, especially when using smartphones, that is not desirable.
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