410961 - Mailing lists appear as single emails in LDAP address book

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 297967

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Harry Kashouli]

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Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.6 (20071022)

Hi all,

I am trying to use Thunderbird at work, where we have an Exchange server. I have successfully connected to my email account via IMAP, and can search my company's address book, via LDAP.

However, there is one very annoying problem: the company is very big and uses mailing lists a lot. In Outlook I can easily distinguish between normal emails (per person) and mailing lists (per group), and by viewing the properties of the mailing list, I can easily see the owner and members of that particular list.

I have yet to discover how to do this in Thunderbird; every single mailing list appears as a normal email, and it is not possible to view the properties of the lists (members, owner, etc)

Is it possible to get Thunderbird to show me the mailing lists when searching the company's LDAP address book?

Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to LDAP address book
2. Search for a mailing lists that is known to exist
3. View the mailing list's properties
Actual Results:  
The mailing lists appear as a normal email; not possible to view the members of the lists

Expected Results:  
Mailing lists should appear properly, viewing members/etc

I must admit I am puzzled by this behavior; I am certain that mailing lists can appear normally; perhaps it's due to me connecting to an Exchange Global Address List, and some settings need to be configured?

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Thunderbird does not currently support mailing lists for LDAP directories. This is already covered by bug 297967 and bug 297966.

Comment 2

[Harry Kashouli]

Apologies. I read both those bug reports, but their wording "inplied" that mailing lists work...

Actually, reading bug 12409 sort of destroys all hope...