[imp] Feature Request.

[Anant Athavale]

Quoting Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>:

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Anant Athavale wrote:
>
>> The problem with sizelimit 0 is, in Compose->Address Book->LDAP
>> Address Book search for blank returns all the e-mail addresses.  I do
>> not want a blank search to be allowed.  For that, Jan suggested to try
>> setting browse = false.  As per the comments defined for browse,
>> setting it false, should not allow for blank search, but it does
>> search and lists all e-mail addresses.
>>
>> If you need any more clarifications, please let me know.
>
> What you describe is exactly how it works.  I have exactly the same
> issue here at OSU.  Our directory server will only return 200 entries
> at a time, and I also set the sizelimit to 200 in my sources file
> (redundant, but for completeness sake).
>
> I am a little confused by part of what you say...  You would like users
> to be able to browse (list all entries) from within Turba itself, but
> you do NOT want a blank search in IMP's address book tool to return all
> entries?

Yes. I would like the users to see all the Addresses in Turba.  From  
here, they can not send mail to all at a time.  But, they can, if they  
want, if they create contact list using LDAP address book.  But,  
chances are less.  But, I don't want blank search for Address Book to  
work during compose.


>
> I can certainly agree that it would be nice to disable the blank search
> in IMP's address book tool.  Inevitably, the unlucky first 200 people
> returned in that search get spammed by our users that want to send
> email to everyone at OSU (thank god we limit it to 200!).  We already
> disable browse on this source in Turba.  A blank search within Turba
> returns no results.  It would be nice if a blank search from IMP's
> address book tool did the same.
>
> 	Andy



Regards,

Anant Athavale.