[imp] Feature Request.

[Andrew Morgan]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Anant Athavale wrote:

> 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 think it would be pretty easy to hack imp/contacts.php to skip the 
search if $search is an empty array.  If you want it on the TODO list for 
the Horde folks, you should probably file a bug.  :)

 	Andy