235166 - Addressbook using LDAP should show the jpegPhoto attribute from inetOrgPerson schema...

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

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

Description

[Mario A. Valdez-Ramirez]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

When using the addressbook with a LDAP server, if the server is using
inetOrgPerson shema some users may a JPEG image in the jpegPhoto attribute as
defined in the RFC 2798:
2.6.  JPEG Photograph. Used to store one or more images of a person using the
JPEG File. Interchange Format [JFIF].
    ( 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.60
      NAME 'jpegPhoto'
      DESC 'a JPEG image'
      SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.28 )

It would be really nice (an useful) if the Mozilla addressbook could show the
photo in the summary frame and in the Edit dialog.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set the addressbook to query a LDAP directory (which use inetOrgPerson schema).
2. Search for a person (known to have her photo in the LDAP dir) using the
Mozilla addressbook.


Actual Results:  
There is no picture in the summary frame or in the edit dialog.

Expected Results:  
The first (or all) pictures stored in the LDAP directory for that person should
be displayed.

I'm using OpenLDAP as LDAP server, our directory is made using inetOrgPerson as
schema.
Windows/OE addressbook cannot display the picture either.
I can view the picture(s) with other LDAP clients.

Comment 1

[Ryan Shea]

The Address Book in OS X pulls down the jpegphoto attribute and it may help some
Mail.app users convert to Thunderbird if that feature was there.

Comment 2

[Marian]

As a user I'm not sure whether this issue automatically applies to Thunderbird
as well (as 'MailNews' and 'Thunderbird' are different products in Bugzilla). If
not, I'd like to mention it.

Additionally, I'd like to add that Netscape Navigator 4.7 used to display the
jpegPhoto in the Browser window when opening the URL of an LDAP entry that
contained this attribute. There might be more people than just the reporter and
me who miss this ability...

Comment 3

[Miguelanxo Otero Salgueiro]

It doesn't work in thunderbird either (0.8 at least). It would be a very nice
enhancement.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Johannes Truschnigg]

This is still not implemented as of Thunderbird 3.1.16 on GNU/Linux.

Comment 7

[tony den haan]

still not working on 24.2.0 on linux

Comment 8

[Carlos]

Still not working on 68.5.0. on Linux