> Hi Leon,
> 
> Thanks a lot for sending in your patch and sorry for the late response,
> it is x-mas time :-)
> 

Yea right :)
Merry Christmas!

> Leon Kolchinsky wrote:
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> Thanks to our PHP Coder - Eugeny Myunster we now can use some
> additional
> >> features from the web-cyradm web interface (in version 0.5.5 -
> >> http://www.web-cyradm.org/web-cyradm-svn-0.5.5.tar.gz):
> >>
> >> 1) Create (in "Add new account") account with First/Last Name in the
> DB.
> >> 2) Edit First Name/Last Name (in " Edit account")
> >> 3) While Browsing Domain Accounts we can now see users "First Name/Last
> >> Name"
> >> 4) Additional button "Show all" to show all accounts in specified
> >> (browsed)
> >> domain
> 
> This can be a problem. We have a customer with 400 mailaccounts, guess
> what happens of you hit this button. For all 400 accounts a cyrus
> connection will be made to look up the quota.
> 

That's right it is useful sometimes for a smaller installation but not for a
big ones (but it's an option I wanted)

> >> 5) Search function is also searching in the "First Name/Last Name" and
> >> showing "First Name/Last Name" in search results.
> >>
> >> Please use it for your own benefit :)
> >>
> >> Do not forget to create 2 new columns with something like this (and
> index
> >> them): alter table accountuser add name varchar(255), shurename
> >> varchar(255)
> 
> Hmm... what is a "shurename"? I guess it is a typo ;-)
> 

OK, originally Marcel Hartmann (thanks Marcel) from this list made a patch
for First/Lastname for 0.5.4 version (and he is a French I think) so he
named it shurename (and it is a legacy :))

> This brings me to another question: It would be much better to store
> this kind of information in a separate table with rows defined in
> config.php. This way the information such as Firstname/Lastname
> (address, phone,etc.) can be stored i.e. in the same table that is used
> by Horde/IMP or other webmailers.
> 

Good idea to store it in a separate table and if you have time please
implement this.

> [..]
> >>
> >> Please check this patch (if you need some improvements in it tell me)
> and
> >> incorporate it in web-cyradm so we won't need to patch every new
> version
> >> for
> >> these nice features.
> 
> I'm not sure if I should apply this patch without the separate table for
> the storage.
> 

May be you could make these changes (with separate table) in the SVN version
and make some upgrade.sql (as you always do in the scripts folder)

> Thanks,
> 
> Luc

Best Regards,
Leon Kolchinsky

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