Yeah, the ldap backend doesn't do anything with givenName.. The only reason it does anything with sn really is that it's a required field. If you could, file a bug on this in bugzilla and I'll see that it gets addressed in either a 1.4.x release or when things get shuffled around for 2.0.
Chris On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 12:46, Carsten Reimer wrote: > Hallo, > > while trying to set up an ldap-based adressbook for Evolution and > Outlook Express I came across a imho strange behaviour of Evolution > (1.4.3). I tried to enter a Contact by using the form in Evolution. > There I entered the First and the Last Name and pressed Save and Close. > >From the Ethereal sniff of the traffic between evo and the ldap server > appeared that evo saved the First and the Last name as a conjunction in > the field cn. I expected that First Name should go into gn (givenName) > and Last Name into sn (surname). I am using the evolutionPerson-Schema > (and core, cosine and inetOrgPerson as well). When I saved an ldap-entry > manually (using ldapadd and an ldif-file with a gn-field) evo was'nt > able to retrieve the gn-field. Is there any reason for this behaviour or > do I do something wrong. > > Thank you for any hints. > > Thanks in advance > > Carsten > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
