271490 - LDAP searches differ when typing in the To: field and when searching for addresses

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

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

Description

[Jeremy Hurst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; INTRANETUSER)
Build Identifier: 

When you search for a person via the Address Book (lets say by typing 
in 'hurst), Mozilla will issue a LDAP search filter similar to:

(|(mail=*hurst*)(cn=*hurst*)(givenName=*hurst*)(sn=*hurst*))

Yet, when you're composing an email and type 'hurst', Mozilla will send the 
following search filter:

(|(cn=hurst*)(mail=hurst*)(sn=hurst*))

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect Mozilla to a LDAP server
2. From the main mail window, choose 'Address Book' underneath the Window menu
3. Search for a name
4. Note how many results you get back
5. Now close the Address Book
6. Compose a new email (ensure your LDAP server is your default address book)
7. Type in the same name which you used in the past to search with.
8. Note how many results you get back

Actual Results:  
You will get back potentially far less results than by doing a normal search.

Expected Results:  
When composing an email, you should see the same number of results as when you 
do an Address Book search. At a minimum, the givenName should be one of the 
fields included in the To: field search.

I am using Mozilla 1.7.3. The following are extracts from the LDAP server log 
files:

Within address book:

[24/Nov/2004:14:18:49 +1100] conn=960050 op=1 msgId=2 - SRCH 
base="o=someorg.com,dc=someorg,dc=com" scope=2 filter="(|(mail=*hurst*)
(cn=*hurst*)(givenName=*hurst*)(sn=*hurst*))" attrs="modifyTimestamp 
xmozillausehtmlmail description notes custom4 custom3 custom2 custom1 birthyear 
homeurl workurl nscpaimscreenname c company o departmentNumber department 
orgunit ou title c zip postalCode region st l l street postOfficeBox carphone 
cellphone mobile pagerphone pager facsimileTelephoneNumber 
facsimileTelephoneNumber homePhone telephoneNumber xmozillasecondemail mail 
xmozillanickname displayName cn cn sn sn givenName"
[24/Nov/2004:14:18:49 +1100] conn=960050 op=1 msgId=2 - RESULT err=0 tag=101 
nentries=15 etime=0

From within mail composition window:

[24/Nov/2004:14:20:06 +1100] conn=960085 op=1 msgId=2 - SRCH 
base="o=someorg.com,dc=someorg,dc=com" scope=2 filter="(|(cn=hurst*)
(mail=hurst*)(sn=hurst*))" attrs="cn mail"
[24/Nov/2004:14:20:06 +1100] conn=960085 op=1 msgId=2 - RESULT err=0 tag=101 
nentries=4 etime=0

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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