290069 - LDIF import is case sensitive where it should not be

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Ted Fines]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

When importing an address book into Thunderbird, I have found two instances
where Thunderbird is doing a case-sensitive match on the LDIF data where it
should not be.

One, consider this LDIF line: "objectclass: groupOfNames".  If the line is
different only by case, e.g. "objectclass: groupofnames", the import fails.  I
e-mailed the [e-mail] mailing list to verify that the case of
'groupOfNames' should be irrelevant, and was told that it is: "'groupofnames'
should work if 'groupOfNames' does.  The objectClass attribute has EQUALITY
matching rule objectIdentifierMatch, which is case-insensitive."

Two, Comparison of e-mail addresses in groups and individual e-mail addresses is
case-sensitive, and should not be.  Consider the following LDIF lines:

dn: cn=Ape,mail=[e-mail]
cn: Ape
sn: Gorilla
objectclass: top
objectclass: person
mail: [e-mail]
xmozillausehtmlmail: FALSE
xmozillauseconferneceserver: 0

dn: cn=Animals
cn: Animals
objectclass: top
objectclass: groupOfNames
member: cn=Ape,mail=[e-mail]

If the individual entry for cn=Ape has an email address that differs only by
case from the member: line in the cn=Animals group, the import fails.  Copy &
paste the above lines into a test.ldif file & import.  Then change the case of
the e-mail address for cn=Ape, and the import won't work.

This should not happen.  E-mail addresses were case sensitive eons ago, but not
anymore.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See details above.
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Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should have parsed and understood 'objectclass: groupofnames' just
as it does 'objectclass: groupOfNames'.
Thunderbird should have imported e-mail groups even if the e-mail address in the
member: line and the e-mail address of the cn included in the group differ only
by case.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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