292801 - Add GUI front end mapping for customizable LDAP attributes

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: LDAP Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
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In comparing LDAP mail clients, and the requests I'm getting from my users, I
think it would be very helpful to have an advanced tab for an LDAP server, so
that it is easy for the end user to

a) Define a custom search filter

b) Define how custom attributes in the directory server map to values in the
Addressbook (basically a GUI frontend to bug 119291)

Other things in the advanced area could be the setting of advanced
authentication mechanisms, like SASL/GSSAPI, which is what Stanford requires for
authenticated connections to our directory server.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7)
Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
> Build Identifier: 
> 
> In comparing LDAP mail clients, and the requests I'm getting from my users, I
> think it would be very helpful to have an advanced tab for an LDAP server, so
> that it is easy for the end user to
> 
> a) Define a custom search filter

bug 138478 comment 1 may be of some immediate help

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

This is still a very important feature to have resolved (just to keep the ticket
open).

Comment 4

[hy93]

Custom search is an import feature.We would like it to be resolved as soon as possible.  

Comment 5

[hy93]

*** Bug 323653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 7

[Nikolay Shopik]

Custom search filter is been working since 2.x tree.
GSSAPI support for LDAP has patch in bug 308118 but still under review - I've ping developers.
Only - GUI frontend to bug 119291 is remain per original request. Not sure how reflect this on summary of bug.
Wayne, any toughs on that?

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Nikolay, I've morphed the summary.  Please modify if I didn't hit it right.  

Does this capability relate to some aspect of importing outlook?

Comment 9

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

No, it has to do with matching capabilities in Eudora, but moreover, just to make it have a nice sane LDAP interface for those sites that have customized LDAP trees for storing data.

Comment 10

[Matt Weatherford]

Possibly related question:

Do we have a good autoconfiguration or method for ISP's, University, Companies, and other entities to see the defaults for the local thunderbird install so that the LDAP address book entries are already set up to that organizations's standards?