LDAP Address Book Auto population?

StefanW · Post by **StefanW** » November 17th, 2005, 3:03 am

Thanks, Jeroen p, great work, works as expected :-)

Looks nice, will come handy!

Cowprince · Post by **Cowprince** » November 17th, 2005, 9:50 am

StefanW wrote:
>>Unfortunately the "*" query does not always return the entire list. It looks like this depends on what LDAP server you use. Does the >>sidebar auto populate when you use a different default search string in the Contacts Sidebar preferences?

I tried a dot and a space to no avail. Those are the characters we use in the contacts search to display all entries.
But I only got this menu after installing your extension, since I had no plugin listed under exensions before, but the look of the
contacts sidebar didn't change, I guess it could be included in the german version of thunderbird and just not have the functionality.
BTW we use an openldap directory.

If you are using the address book as I am, where everyone has an email address, make @ the default search value, and then make sure you just set the Search For: menu to email.