Hello,

Over the weekend I upgraded from IMail 6.04 to 8.0 and moved from a Windows
NT box to Windows 2000.  Other than the self inflicted wound I sustained by
swapping the OHN and the Alias, I thought the upgrade went pretty well.

That is, until I came into work this morning and found all the users
grouching about how LDAP wasn't working the same anymore.  After several
hours of head scratching and clicking 'Optimize LDAP', I finally figured out
the LDAP is now case sensitive!

In other words, if the users name in IMail is 'Alan Walters' and somebody
types 'alan' into the address field, LDAP claims there's no match!  However,
if somebody types 'Alan' or 'Walters' or even 'awalters' then it finds a
match.  Unfortunately, nearly all the users have been trained over the years
to address their emails by searching for the recipients first name in lower
case - and that's no longer working since the upgrade.

I've searched the IpSwitch knowledge base for LDAP, but all I can come up
with are tips on how to make Outlook 98/2000 work better with LDAP.  We're
still using Netscape Messenger 4.79, because it has a more intuitive
approach to LDAP addressing than Outlook.  In Netscape if you enter a
partial name, Messenger will automatically fill in the rest or automatically
offer a popup box with similar matches to choose from.

Does anybody know a trick to get LDAP to be case insensitive?  Or what the
magic incantation is for the Search Root field?  Currently we have 'Person'
specified.  We've tried the 'Objectclass=Person' which is supposed to work
for Outlook, but does nothing for Netscape.

Alan Walters
Director of I.T.
Royce Medical


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