As long as we have used Imail LDAP it has been picky about case. We have been using imail since V6.x
Kevin Bilbee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Walters > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 4:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ipswitch. Com > Subject: [IMail Forum] LDAP at v8.0 now picky about case > > > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
