Andrei Pozolotin Reporter
	Description • 18 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 XpcomViewer/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 XpcomViewer/0.9

please make ldap address books updatable

Reproducible: Always

	Andrei Pozolotin Reporter
	Comment 1 • 18 years ago

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:YqVJ0A7vWZkJ:lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/06/msg00440.html+thunderbird+ldap+%22address+book%22+read-only&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=7

I think the moz ldap interface is read-only which is a pity.

Evolution on Linux is read/write so much better from the gui/ldap backend perspective.

	Andrei Pozolotin Reporter
	Comment 2 • 18 years ago

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:S9v_x9NrH4oJ:blogs.sun.com/roller/page/watt%3Fentry%3Devolution_thunderbird_and_my_hate+thunderbird+evolution+ldap+%22address+book%22+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

So for now I guess I am SOL. The most I will be able to squeeze out of the Thunderbird Address Book is the name and email, which is OK for many uses. 

However I will have to use yet another client to see the full records and do general management, which I was hoping to avoid. 

Fortunately I have found JXplorer. A Java based, Open Source LDAP Browser, which should do the trick for now.

	Mark Banner (:standard8)
	Comment 3 • 18 years ago

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think the moz ldap interface is read-only which is a pity.
> 
> Evolution on Linux is read/write so much better from the gui/ldap backend
> perspective.
> 

Yes we do want to make ldap writeable. However we are currently lacking developers to implement it, but welcome more (see http://www.mozilla.org/developer/). Bug 86405 is already covering the enhancement therefore I'm marking this as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86405 ***

	Andrei Pozolotin Reporter
	Comment 4 • 18 years ago

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:sseVkfOmCLwJ:kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_address_books+thunderbird+shared+ldap+%22address+book%22+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Rather than using abook.mab to store the address book on your hard disk, you could use a LDAP server to share the address book. 

Unfortunately Thunderbird currently doesn't support editing entries on the LDAP server so its most useful in an environment where an admin maintains a corporate address book.

	Andrei Pozolotin Reporter
	Comment 5 • 18 years ago

RE:

------- Comment #3 From Mark Banner 2006-06-04 14:29 PDT [reply] -------

> Yes we do want to make ldap writeable. However we are currently lacking
> developers to implement it, but welcome more (see
> http://www.mozilla.org/developer/). Bug 86405 is already covering the
> enhancement therefore I'm marking this as a duplicate.


Hello Mark,

thank you for the response; can you please let me know if your patch:

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124897

is available somewhere for download 
as compiled in a win32 thunderbird 1.5 build?

Thank you

Andrei