global address book not being searched in horde compose email

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> When I login to Horde and try to compose a mail, the global addressbook
> searching doesn't work.  This is a nice piece of sugar to save people time
> over our old system so I really want it to work.  I note that it appeared
> not to be configured by default¹ but changing this setting made no
> difference.

I've tracked this down to
/kolab/var/kolab/www/client/imp/lib/Imple/ContactAutoCompleter.php : 54

    function handle($args)
    {   
        // Avoid errors if 'input' isn't set and short-circuit empty
        // searches.
        if (empty($args['input']) ||
            !($input = Util::getPost($args['input']))) {
            return '<ul></ul>';
        }

For whatever reason Util::getPost($args['input'])) returns an empty string
with $args['input']='to' so an empty list is returned and we get no
autocompletion.  I'm not clear yet why that POST variable is empty though.
If anyone has suggestions please let me know.

Thanks,
Gavin