What about the ability to change the charset of a LDAP server?
Perhaps in some advanced dialog. Currently in NS4.x you can only change the
charset via manual edit of the prefs.js.
Not all LDAP servers run US-ascii...
Jennifer Glick wrote:
> OK, here is my attempt at some screen shots for this.
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/addressbook/LDAP.html
>
> Let me know were I'm wrong or what I'm missing.
>
> Dan Mosedale wrote:
>
> > [distribution widened, as I think .mail-news readers are likely to care
> > about this]
> >
> > Csaba Borbola wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Dan,
> > >
> > > thanks for the answers Kevin and Dan.
> > > I won't do much work this week, because I'm on a course.
> > >
> > > My part in the LDAP address book project is to do the preferences.
> > > I would like to know, how did you think to do the preferences settings
> > > for the autocompletion.
> >
> > A very timely question... a few of us eClient folks sat down just
> > yesterday and came up with a straw-man proposal on this very thing.
> >
> > > If you want to use the autocompletion, somewhere you have to specify the
> > > Directory Server settings, don't you?
> >
> > > Are you going to do the way as Netscape 4.x has?
> >
> > What we came up with is something like what Netscape 4.x does, but put
> > together in a way that fits into the Mozilla preferences style. It has
> > separate panes for Directory, Addressbook, and Autocompletion prefs, and
> > we've started out only by specifying the Directory and Autocompletion
> > panes, since that's what we're concentrating on first.
> >
> > <http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/proposals/LDAPAddressingPrefs.html>
> > is an approximate description of what we came up with (unfortunately
> > couched in my rather terse note-taking style). We'd love to hear
> > feedback from any and all corners, especially from the current Mozilla
> > owners of the addressbook preferences UI.
> >
> > > I did a short investigation at the beginning about the problem. This is
> > > really a short description. I attach that at the end of my mail.
> > >
> > > So it would be really nice to clarify the overlapping tasks
> > > corresponding the preferences work, because there is no point to
> > > do the same work twice.
> >
> > Absolutely; I look forward to your comments.
> >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > > Csaba
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *******************************************************************
> > >
> > > LDAP related settings in Netscape 4.7:
> > >
> > > In address book :
> > > Add directory menu point -> Dialog is asking for the followings:
> > >
> > > Description - name appearing in the left pane
> > > LDAP server - name of the LDAP directory server
> > > Server Root - this is the search base inside the directory tree
> > > Port number - LDAP directory server port number
> > > Max. number of hits - max number of matches for the query
> > >
> > > checkbox for login with name and password - if you tick it, the
> > > Netscape will drop you out a login name and password dialog
> > > box before connedcting the directory server
> > >
> > > checkbox for secure mode
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Edit menu point -> Preferences -> Mail & Newsgroups -> Addressing
> > >
> > > Look for addresses in the following:
> > > checkbox for local addressbook
> > > checkbox for Directory server
> > > drop down box for selecting from the installed directory servers
> > >
> > > When there are multiple addresses found:
> > > show me a list of choices and accept what i have typed selective
> > > radio buttons
> > > checkbox for the case, if there is one match in autocompletion
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *******************************************************************
> > >
> > > Classification of the features above:
> > >
> > > The whole Addressing section in preferences is related to the
> > > autocompletion.
> > >
> > > There are two types of preferences:
> > > - one is stored in the prefs.js file in the ~/.mozilla/default
> > > directory
> > >
> > > - the other is stored in an other java script file, which is stored
> > > among the installed binary files (I'll call them hidden)
> > >
> > > Almost all the autocompletion related settings are stored in the hidden
> > > preferences.
> >
> > I guess I don't understand the point of the hidden file. Why not store
> > all preferences in prefs.js?
> >
> > > There are stored the following settings in the prefs.js file:
> > > -autocompletion enabled
> > > -csid (UTF-8)
> >
> > What's a csid?
> >
> > > -description of the LDAP server
> > > -filename of the adressbook file
> >
> > For storing a local copy of the LDAP data?
> >
> > > -max. hits
> > > -port number of LDAP server
> > > -position of the addressbook in the adressbook list
> >
> > > -search base, ie. Server Root
> > > -LDAP server name
> > >
> >
> > > ********************************************************************
> > >
> > > I suggest to store the following extra preferences:
> > >
> > > - list of secondary ldap server in case of a not responding primary
> > > LDAP server
> >
> > Is this necessary? I would assume that when an admin has multiple LDAP
> > servers, they'd just have multiple DNS A records pointing the single
> > server name to multiple IP addresses, which would be returned in a
> > single array by gethostbyname().
> >
> > Dan
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