17880 - [LDAP] Autocomplete email address from LDAP directory [meta]

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Phil Peterson]

This is a feature tracking bug for autocompleting email addresses in the compose
window using LDAP directories

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

P4 per m/n staff mtg today

Comment 2

[selmer (gone)]

Moving all P4s out of beta2 to M17.

Comment 3

[selmer (gone)]

Phil found a way to weasel out of owning this bug.  Reassigning.

Comment 4

[selmer (gone)]

[LDAP] in summary

Comment 5

[selmer (gone)]

LDAP to M30, nobody, helpwanted

Comment 6

[pmock]

Changing qa assigned to myself.

Comment 7

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Taking this bug and removing helpwanted.  It would be a really fine thing to
land this for mozilla 0.9.  The exact strategy to take for this has yet to be
hammered out.  In some sense, the more elegant way is to integrate LDAP into the
addressbook first and then let the existing addressbook autocomplete work.  But
realistically speaking, the addressbook is currently tightly wired enough to
Mork and addressbook autocomplete is likely to have dependencies on how long it
may take to return results.  So as a way land this feature sooner rather than
later, my suspicion is that the right thing to do may be to implement
nsI(Ab)AutoCompleteSession ourselves.  The cleanest way would be if it's
possible to run multiple autocomplete sessions on a single textbox
simulataneously.  Not sure whether that's currently possible.  More
investigation to follow; comments invited.

Comment 8

[fenella]

Assign to Hong's group

Comment 9

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Moving to my netscape account.

Comment 10

[Hong Kwon]

setting qa to [e-mail]

Comment 11

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Untargetting, since this is a meta bug.

Comment 12

[Li Ling]

Hi there,

Any progress on this, is this available in 1.5.  My entire company's 
addressbook is on the LDAP. We would like to put our clients addresses in the 
LDAP too to share out as a global addressbook but it can't be done because the 
addresses can't be displayed when I click on the LDAP under address book. BTW i 
am using 1.3.  The address would only appear when I key it in in the search 
field.

Comment 13

[John Dell]

Hmm.  I'm using moz-mail 1.6 and LDAP auto-complete for mail compose window is
working great!  In the addressbook, LDAP lookup works fine also when you provide
search parameters.

Reading the comments, perhaps this bug should be closed and a new one opened for
auto-loading LDAP entries to the addressbook?

Or, perhaps I don't understand this bug?

Regards,
John

Comment 14

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

This is a tracking bug.  It exists for purposes of its dependency tree.  Click
the "Show dependency tree" link to see that.

Comment 15

[rabbitambulance]

I know this is implemented (there's an option for this, for Christ's sake), but I'm noticing that it doesn't actually work very well. Or rather it either works fine (sometimes) or just not at all (most times). I've been unable to find out why, up to now. Do I open a bug for this (I couldn't find one) or is this the correct place for this?

Comment 16

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Yes, that would be a separate bug.  This is a meta bug used for tracking the dependent bugs.

Comment 17

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Assigning bugs that I'm not actively working on back to nobody; use SearchForThis as a search term if you want to delete all related bugmail at once.

Comment 18

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

The remaining dependent bugs seem to be mostly related to performance only.  So, in the sense of "bug", they should not be considered "blocking".  This bug at the current stage seems to be more an enhancement than a bug.  OTOH, some dependent bugs are not really or fully relevant.  To name a few:

Bug 75999: Does the resolution of this bug really have impact on autocomplete?

Bug 80803: This is not only useful for LDAP, but in general situation.

Bug 126022: This is about collected email addresses.  Not autocomplete.

Comment 19

[Matt Moldvan]

None of the dependent bugs have been updated since 2008 ... can this one be closed?

Comment 20

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

As this is a tracking bug, it's not correct to close it, well, at least personally, I would vote against closing it.

Comment 21

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Mostly about ldap XPCOM, and most of this stuff hasn't be touched in 10-20 years. Any further work in ldap is likely be done in new code.