483399 - Mailto links invalid when using ldap uid as login not email address

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Charles Kingsley]

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Build Identifier: Bugzilla 3.2.2

Hello there,

I've checked for existing dupes and can't find any for this but I do apologise in advance should there be one!

We've recently moved to an LDAP backend for our project and are using uid (in my case chaz) to log into the Bugzilla (version 3.2.2) but when viewing bugs and clicking the hyperlink of the name of the person who made a comment it points to mailto:uid where uid would be chaz.

I can't see a way out of this other than reverting to using email addresses for the login which we don't really want to do. I did also consider using the default email suffix but we have many more users with outside email addresses.

An example is available at http://bugs.anope.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1052 where both mooncup and myself both have valid email addresses in ldap but it's not using it in the list.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable LDAP
2. Use uid instead of email for Bugzilla login
3. Update a bug


Expected Results:  
Should be using email in the mailto links instead of uid (default behaviour of course for bugzilla is email address = uid but not here)

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

Once bug 218917 is fixed, all mailto: links will go away. So this will no longer be a problem.