313920 - Message Compose window hangs then switches windows randomly during LDAP search

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Chris Marshall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (ax)

Thunderbird does not handle LDAP queries and return results correctly. I've tried this with multiple ldap servers and server configurations. It used to work prior to Thunderbird 1.0.2 and it hasn't worked since. LDAP lookups don't work either in the Address Book view or in the Message Compose window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a compose window
2. Start typing a few letters in the "to" field
3. The message compose window hangs for a minute or two, and then reacts unpredictably.

I've tried this with multiple ldap servers and this problem has occured since Thunderbird 1.0.2.
Actual Results:  
When the message compose window finally does return it hides itself behind some other application window. The To field fills itself with a random address from the local address book that doesn't match the what is typed into the To field.


Expected Results:  
I would have expected to see a list of results from the LDAP server. I am successful in getting results from Windows Address Book with the same LDAP server configuration as in Thunderbird. There seems to be a communication problem with Thunderbird and any ldap server.

Comment 1

[Ray Booysen]

Reporter, what version of thunderbird are you using?

Comment 2

[Chris Marshall]

I am currently on 1.5 Beta 2 and I have experienced this with every release since 1.0.2.

Comment 3

[Wolfgang Ulmer]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I am currently on 1.5 Beta 2 and I have experienced this with every release
> since 1.0.2.
> 

Hi,
I' am the same problem. No LDAP queries with Thunderbird 1.0.7 or 1.5B2. Ethereal shows no packets sent to the ldap server. Thunderbird only hangs for some time.

Comment 4

[Jamie Thompson]

I seem to remember reading about this on another bug as being due to IP6 being installed on the thunderbird client machine. As my OpenLDAP server doesn't normally bind to an IPv6 address, Thunderbird stalls for ages and then gives up. I fixed it with 1.0.6 by uninstalling IPv6....though as TB is the only app that siffers from it I'd prefer they fix the code here :)

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Is anyone still seeing this problem? I've not heard any reports about it recently.

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Is anyone still seeing this problem? I've not heard any reports about it
> recently.
> 
No responses/known other bugs/not seen, therefore marking as WFM.