The current interface allows only one LDAP directory server to be used for address autocompletion. A user should be complete against as many directory servers as he or she wants. The current interface, a single dropdown box containing all the directory server only allows one selection. The control could be changed to a list box like the one used to select HTML or Plain text domains in the Send Format dialog.

There is a bug already filed on this one. Marking as dup *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70600 ***

Actually, this isn't a dup 70600: that's about using multiple LDAP servers with identical data for failover. This is about completing against multiple different LDAP servers simultaneously (eg corporate, mozilla.org, personal). This shouldn't be hard to do, as the architecture was designed to allow for this.

Confirming and taking.

*** Bug 154017 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Is someone working on fixing that? That is exectly what we need... Regards, Torsten Werner

*** Bug 252654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Following is what we're doing to send an encrypted message to two people listed in two different directories. Is this the best way to work around this limitation, or is there an easier way? 1. Start composing message 2. Select Security > Encrypt this message 3. Edit > Preferences and change default autocomplete LDAP server to "server 2" 4. Auto-complete addressee of first person who is listed in server 2 5. Click on Security button to force first certificate to be pulled from server 2 6. Edit > Preferences and change default LDAP server back to LDAP server 1 7. Auto-complete addressee of second person who is listed in the main server 8. Finish composing and send message (certificate for second addressee will be pulled from LDAP server 1 at this point)

-> me, I plan to work on this

BenB: are you still working on this? I'd be interested in seeing it land in the Thunderbird 1.1 timeframe...

In general yes, but not since we last talked about it. Busy with a release and real life. I have the changes to MsgComposerCommands.js (or similar), made it add one autocomplete source per server, but I still see only one in the widget. No idea why or how to find out. I can attach my changes, if you want to take a look.

FWIW, here's my current work. It *should* work as-is, but it doesn't work, and I have no idea why. I'm adding multiple "sessions" (one per server) to the autocomplete widget, and they seem to get added and names uniquely in the autocomplete's internal list. But only one is used. I couldn't find an obivous limitation in the autocomplete widget that would be causing that. Any useful help or hint on that is appreciated. I deliberately hardcoded the list of server names. Making a pref out of that should be trivial: - var directories = ["ldap_2.servers.UW", "ldap_2.servers.novell"]; + var directories = pref.getChar("ldap_2.servers.list").split(","); or similar.

Essentially the same as bug 125188 which covers slightly more and has more up to date patches. Therefore duping to that bug.

Undupping, because 125188 is later, less specific, and the patches did not move forward, and this bug here has patches, too.

What version of Thunderbird will this fix be in?