284602 - Downloading entries from LDAP do not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 231965

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[tompik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0+

After configuring new LDAP server, running 'Offline->Download Now' do not load
any entries into AddressBook (but Thunderbird is connecting to LDAP).
Thunderbird is also able to successfully search LDAP while typing address during
'compose mail'.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Hmmm ... your addressbook isn't a copy of the LDAP-server, that's why it isn't
downloading. That would also impossible for large impossible (in my company, it
conatins > 50K entries !).

Note that the 'Downlad and sync message' dialog box, does not contain an entry
at all. So why is this filed as a bug-report ? A enhancement-request would be
make more sence, but I guess it will still be set to WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[tompik]

Hmm, I agree that for such big trees downloading whole directory do not have too
much sense.
But I see this as an 'bug-report' because I see 'You can download a local copy
of this directory so that it is available when you are working offline' and it's
not working.
Maybe this 'Offline' tab should be just removed from application?

Comment 3

[Neil Stevens]

I have the same problem, Thunderbird 1.0, Select offline, Download now, and a
bar flashes up and then returns to the Download now window but nothing has happened.
We only have about 150 entries and the guys with laptops would really like this
function to work.
-Neil.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Pavel Moukhataev]

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 7

[Pavel Moukhataev]

I have exactly the same problem with thunderbird 1.0 and thunderbird 1.5 b2.

Comment 8

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I have exactly the same problem with thunderbird 1.0 and thunderbird 1.5 b2.

This bug has been fixed by bug 231965 (and is the same problem) therefore marking as duplicate. The fix for 231965 has also been committed for thunderbird 1.5 rc1 so it should work in that when it comes out. It won't go into thunderbird 1.0 as that branch is for security fixes only.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231965 ***