195325 - LDAP autocomplete using remote server) erratic

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

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

Description

[Dave W.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202
Build Identifier: Mozilla 5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030119

the autocomplete/search for a remote LDAP server works, but erratically. for the
following examples, assume that there are two users in the remote directory
whose particulars are:

First = Foo, Last = Bar, email = [e-mail]
First = Foofee, Last = Fum, email = [e-mail]

and that the sender's account is:

First = Joe, Last = Smith, email = [e-mail]

1) autocomplete partially works in the compose window To: field.
-- typing "Foo" or "foo" sometimes does no autocomplete at all; sometimes shows
"[e-mail]" on the first line followed by both matching users in the pulldown
menu, as expected; and sometimes shows "[e-mail]" followed by a folder icon 
  with a red checkmark labelled "LDAP server search problem". if i help it along
by typing another letter or two, it usually wakes up and autocompletes correctly.
-- typing "foo." (with the period) gives either the correct autocomplete or the
server error. behavior varies.
-- typing "Foo B" (trying to match by name instead of email) either gives the
server error or BOTH entries. so it appears to be looking at the start of the
email address no matter what.

2) in the Address Book window, both the Personal Address Book and the Collected
Addresses can be searched by any part of Name or Email. For example, a search on
"org" finds all addresses whose emails end in ".org", as expected. But for the
LDAP server (which appears with a folder icon alongside the other two books in
the left-hand pane), the search only matches on first name, last name, or the
*beginning* of an email address. So if the user Joseph Bloggs
([e-mail]) is in the LDAP directory, searching on "joseph", "bloggs",
or "joe" will find him, but "joe.bloggs", "xyz", and "com" will not.

3) highlighting either Personal Address Book or Collected Addresses gives a full
list of contents in the right-hand pane. user can then narrow down that list by
typing stuff in the search box. but if user selects the LDAP server, nothing at
all appears on the right until at least one character is typed in the search box.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up a remote LDAP server in mail
2. fire up a Compose window
3. try using address autocomplete on some known addresses in the remote directory

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dup of bug 194305?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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