Re: LDAP expand alias

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

On 2001.09.19 09:52 Brian Stafford wrote:
> On Wed, 19 September 08:09 Steven Anker wrote:
> 
> > I've recently started using Balsa and I think it's great. But I do have
> > some problems with the expand alias option for LDAP address books. I've
> > enabled it, but it doesn't do anything. If I type a name (when
> composing a
> > message) which can be found in a GnomeCard address folder then it
> expands
> > as I type. But nothing happens with the LDAP addresses. Did I forget to
> > enable some option or is this feature not supported for LDAP?
> 
> LDAP doesn't work like this - at least not when querying the server.
> LDAP searches, it does not perform key-value queries.  [ ... ]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58167

says more on this.
> 
> > I've looked through the mail-archives quickly, but couldn't find
> anything.
> > So I hope I do not ask something which is already discussed.
> 
> Its in there!
Quite possibly. Note, however, that if you fail to find information about a
problem on the mailing list, it is usually a good idea to search Bugzilla
(via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/query.cgi).
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- Toralf