[.mail-news added] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Csaba Borbola) writes: > Hi Dan, > > I'm doing the LDAP addressbook settings and I would like to get > some comment related to filters. > I think the LDAP address book should not use the filter > settings from the preferences, which was set for autocompletion. > It might have a point to merge that filters with the > address book filters, but I don't really think we should. > What is your opinion about it? > > I would just skip those filters, because we are going to use > the new UI interface for LDAP addressbook searching anyway. When we concocted the UI, our intent was to merge the filters. The reason for that is that people often don't really care about 10000 addresses in parts of the organization that they never interact with. So it turns out to be useful to be able to create several small addressbooks (eg AcmeCo: Finance; AcmeCo: Legal). Directory Server deployments often have all the people for the entire company in one big bucket, which means that using a separate base DN isn't sufficient for this purpose. This is also interesting from a performance point of view (especially since addressbook still uses trees and not outliner). And it will also be desirable once offline LDAP addressbooks are supported, since people will definitely want to limit their disk space usage. So intuition suggests doing the merging. Is there some reason why you'd rather not? FWIW, I suspect I'm gonna end up implementing the filter stuff using the filter templates in the LDAP C SDK, perhaps exposing them as nsILDAPFilterTemplate or something. > The address book would include every LDAP entries from the > preferences. So would do for the 3 hardcoded server too > (infospace, verisign and netcenter). Are they still valid > components in Mozilla or they just left there from the past? They're leftover cruft. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79814 has been filed about their removal. > The only thing we should workout somehow, that the address > book should to get notification if a new LDAP server was added > in the autocompletion preferences. I know there were already > some discussion about this, but it is the time to implement > it, because hopefully our pathces will be in soon. Should we > have a separate bug number for this? See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83114 for more info about this. Dan --
