John Marmion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Some of you may be aware of our attempt here to add
> Multiple Address Book support to Mozilla. Our first
> patch landed successfully for milestone 0.9. This
> refactored the address book source to support multiple
> address books. Our next patch will add LDAP and MAPI/Outlook
> support plus an enhanced ldap query string support. We
> are making some experimental builds available of this Patch II
> at the following website:
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/linux/mozaddr
>
> Linux and Windows builds are there now. We will be attempting
> to get Patch II put back to the tree.
This is great! I just tried the linux build this afternoon and was
able to make it play reasonably nicely with AOL T/W's internal
directory server. I'd be interested in helping you land this in the
Mozilla tree, but this would be a lot easier if we could get
the patches in question in Bugzilla.
I'd suggest creating a new tracking bug in Mail/News : Addressbook for
the various different features of this patch, and if you'd like me to
eventually do the checkin honors, go ahead and assign it to me. The
next step would be to file multiple bugs for the various
sub-components; and attach the patches to those bugs. At a minimum:
* one bug for the modifications to the existing addrbook code
* one bug for the LDAP searching code (we could probably just use
17879 for this)
* one bug for the MAPI searching code
All three of these bugs should block the main tracking bug. Splitting
it up like this will make it much easier to get through the review
process and will evoke less fear when it starts being tracked on the
mozilla planning radar <http://komodo.mozilla.org/planning/branches.cgi>.
If this sounds like a plan you'd like to go forward with, I'll deal
with the landing radar tommorrow.
Speaking of bugs, is 69480 actually just left over from the
addressbook refactoring landing and should be resolved?
> There is an explanation of how to enable both LDAP and
> MAPI by simply editing the prefs.js file in the text file
> SummaryPatchII.txt. Our next Patch (Patch III)
> will enable this through the GUI. We hope to post some
> screen shots of this soon.
Very cool; nice work!
> We would encourage people to download and get back to us
> with any issues.
One problem I noticed was that if I only used a single search term,
rather than an or'ed pair of search terms as used in the example, I
didn't see any results. I don't have the details near me at the
moment, unfortunately, but I'll look again when I do.
Dan
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