Re: Automatic address completion and general address handling

[Mark Flacy <mflacy1 comcast net>]

On 2006.02.17 05:57, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 02/16/2006 04:08:46 PM Thu, Mark Flacy wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >> The help text that is part of Balsa 2.3.10 mentions that...
> >> "Also, some address books are expensive to lookup. You will > need then  
> to press Ctrl-R to explicitly expand the alias."
>
> I believe the issue is that LDAP books are *not* flagged as expensive, when  
> they certainly should be!  You can turn off auto-completion in Settings:  
> Address Books: Modify, but that turns off both auto-completion and  
> user-requested completion (ctrl+R).  If you installed from a tarball, the  
> fix is:
>
> diff -u -r1.38 address-book-ldap.c
> --- libbalsa/address-book-ldap.c        25 Aug 2005 21:29:45 -0000      1.38
> +++ libbalsa/address-book-ldap.c        17 Feb 2006 11:55:54 -0000
> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
>       ab->passwd  = NULL;
>       ab->enable_tls = FALSE;
>       ab->directory = NULL;
> -    LIBBALSA_ADDRESS_BOOK(ab)->is_expensive = FALSE;
> +    LIBBALSA_ADDRESS_BOOK(ab)->is_expensive = TRUE;
>   }
>
>   static void

Ahh, very good.  I shall install the patch and let you know how well that  
works.