[Kolab-devel] Problems after importing addresses

Andreas Gungl a.gungl at gmx.de
Wed May 18 19:37:16 CEST 2005


Am Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2005 17:29 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> On Wednesday 18 May 2005 09:09, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> > > The cn field is used to store "Firstname Surname" and the mail
> > > field is used for the email address. The Admin interface parses
> > > the cn field when creating the user lists.
> >
> > so this should be considered as bug, because in LDAP there is (e.g.):
> >
> > sn: Gungl
> > givenName: Andreas
> > mail: Andreas.Gungl at osp-dd.de
> > cn: gungl at osp-dd.de
> >
> > I don't argue against setting cn = givenName + " " + sn when inserting
> > data via the web frontend. However parsing any data out of cn although
> > there is explicitely givenName should be fixed.
> > It's not logical (and unfortunatly it breaks when importing data with
> > people having the same name but different mail address as explained in my
> > last post).
>
> Can you file a bug, topic server?

Sure.

Another problem I've found during my import tests: If you have more LDAP 
entries than the limit of the server, showing the addresses in the admin 
frontend produces an empty page. Can anyone confirm this constellation?

Andreas




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