On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:32:09PM -0600, Dale Harris wrote:
> I've got the LDAP stuff working, I believe. I'm able to use Q to query for
> for e-mail addresses. That works great to just find someone and send them
> a note. But something that would be nice (especially when I'm feeling
> lazy and don't want to use X's string copying capability), is if we could
> do a query from inside message generation. For example, I get a note from
> Fred that I want to forward on to Jane, it would be nice to just hit
> 'f' to forward the note and then hit some key combination to do an LDAP
> query to get Jane's e-mail address. Is there anyway to do that now? It
> some ways it would be just like making LDAP an extension of our aliases,
> I could just type a couple of characters, hit <TAB> and it work search
> LDAP for that string, just like it does with the aliases file.
In the long run mutt should get some LDAP support. I am doing some
LDAP right now (server stuff and some client programming {perl, c})
and i like the generic interface to lots and lots of directories.
But... _please_ lets keep mutt as smart as possible. No feature
bloat please!
Holger
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