For the curious Thunderbird user, the default LDAP search
filter in
Thunderbird 1.5 is a long string of OR'd equality matches,
where
<searchStr> is the user entered search text:
(|(mail=*<searchStr>*)(displayname=*<searchStr>*
)(givenname=*<searchStr>*)(sn=*<searchStr>*))
Thus, if you enter 'Smith', Thunderbird will search for
any ldap entry
where the:
* email address (mail) contains 'smith'
* displayname contains 'smith'
* firstname (givenname) contains 'smith'
* lastname (sn) contains 'smith'
Enjoy,
-r
Jay Bryon wrote:
> Well, that's weird, I've been using thunderbird for
ages now, and have
> never had a problem with ldap. But after I set up the
ldap server
> link, I would search it usually only via auto-complete
of email
> addresses when composing emails. Generally it's been
surprisingly
> snappy/instantaneous. Direct searches are the same,
although the
> mandatory "last, first" format is annoying.
Searching the other way
> results in no hits. Don't know if there's some way
of fixing that.
> Anyway, thanks for fixing things, even if I'm for some
reason
> unaffected in the first place.
> -Jay
>
>
>
> Rob Chevalier wrote:
>> Attention Thunderbird users,
>>
>> I recently noticed that the default search filter
used by Thunderbird
>> for LDAP Directory searches is using the
'displayname' attribute;
>> which is something I've never seen an email client
do before.
>> Because the 'displayname' attribute was not
indexed, directory
>> searches performed by Thunderbird were
excruciatingly slow if not
>> hopeless.
>>
>> Yesterday, I created an index on the
'displayname' attribute in the
>> production CalNet Directory and, as a result,
Thunderbird searches
>> are responding very nicely.
>>
>> For information on configuring Thunderbird to use
the CalNet
>> Directory as an alternate Address Book, please see:
>>
>> htt
ps://calnet.berkeley.edu/connecting.html#tbird
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rob Chevalier
>> The CalNet Team
>>
>>
>>
>>
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