[Evolution-hackers] Bug 40699: LDAP Compatibility Issue

[Brad Diggs <brad DiggsFamily net>]

Hello,

There are those of us in the directory services world that
would like to use a directory server as the single repository
for all identity information.  Toward that end, it would be
nice if all of the LDAP based address book clients (Netscape, 
Mozilla, Outlook, Windoze address book, and of course my 
favorite Evolution) used the same directory attributes for
identity information.

Evolution seems to deviate significantly from most other
address book clients in that it uses the homePostalAddress
attribute to store the entire user address in.  While this
is a completely viable option, it isolates evolution from
the other clients out there and makes it harder to keep the
common identity information in sync.  I would like to propose
that you do two things to resolve this inconsistency:

First, alter evolution so that it can support the standard
postal address attributes in addition to homePostalAddress:

   streetAddress: $street_address
   l: $city
   st: $state
   postalCode: $zip_code

Second, add a configurable option to allow an end user to
specify which format that they would prefer to use.

Thanks in advance,
Brad