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dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 374

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ldap, evolution and "bad search filter"

I've recently setup an ldap server and integrated it with evolution but I have a problem with automatic address look ups.

Using the internal address book, as I type the name into a new mail it fetches the closest matches, with ldap it doesn't. If I click the To button and type the name into the Search box it then brings up the matches in the Contacts list and I can chose. At the bottom of this dialogue it says "bad search filter".

What do I need to do so that addresses typed into the top of mail work as they used to and what does "bad search filter" mean as it is working ok?

skr

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 11

Re: ldap, evolution and "bad search filter"

Same problem here,

It DOES however do autocompletion in the To, Cc and Bcc fields! (if enabled

dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

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Re: ldap, evolution and "bad search filter"

I get no auto completion anywhere :-(

I posted it on what I think is the official evolution forum (http://forums.novell.com/group/novell.s … ticle@1687) and got one reply from someone else having the same problem but no fixes.

Is this worth raising as a bug?

lefallen

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2006-07-06

Posts: 36

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Re: ldap, evolution and "bad search filter"

I suppose it depends on your configuration.  Mine works fine with:

Using distinguished name: uid=fallen,ou=Users,dc=quadronyx,dc=com,dc=au

Search base: ou=Users,dc=quadronyx,dc=com,dc=au

Search scope: Sub

Search filter:
(empty)

These of course match my LDAP configuration also.

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dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

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Re: ldap, evolution and "bad search filter"

I have similar:

search base:

ou=addressbook,dc=myserver,dc=com

login

uid=robin,ou=users,dc=myserver,dc=com

I have the addresses in a different section to the users so that explains the addressbook/users difference.

Search scope is sub and no filter.

The whole thing works when I popup the to box but just not with auto-complete which is why I'm not sure how to procede. If it just didn't work then I would have something to work with but partially working is harder I reckon.