[Evolution] LDAP groups handling?

[Brett Johnson <brett hp com>]

Hi all,

I'm seeing some behavior in Evolution when dealing with LDAP groups,
which I'd like to understand better.

Evo will resolve LDAP groups as email addresses, when searching an LDAP
address book, and will display the group name in the "To:" header as an
apparent email address.  Yet, when actually sending the email, it
appears to expand the group name into its constituent "member" field,
and not put the group name in the actual "To:" header.

I think I can see the logic behind this, as not all ldap groups are
going to actually be valid email addresses.  But in many cases, the
group name *is* a valid email address (for example, HP's corporate LDAP
implementation actually treats certain LDAP groups as mailing lists,
complete with archives etc...).

Is there any way to modify this (expand the group on send) behavior?
It's very disconcerting in any case, and in my case, pretty much *never*
what I want it to do.  Maybe there ought to be some kind of address book
preference that controls the behavior?

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Brett Johnson <brett hp com>