[turba] multiple email addresses for one contact

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Thu Mar 29 16:32:50 UTC 2007


Zitat von Martin Fraser <mdf at darksnow.net>:

> Has this issue been resolved for anyone?

Which issue? There is no issue.

> I've also got an LDAP addressbook setup and find that if in another
> program I add multiple entries for email, or any other field, they
> simply return a comma separated list, which is not correct.

What is "they"?

> Why can't Turba show multiple entries as multiple entries rather than
> one incorrectly concatenated list. I guess this is not an issue if
> people have multiple nicknames, since a comma separated list here will
> be fine for viewing, but email should be separate clickable links.

How is that incorrectly concatenated?

> Then we get to the issue of entering the data. I under stand this may be
> a problem with the SQL driver (how do you enter multiple email addresses
> into a single field) but it should allow it for LDAP backends.

The problem is, it has to work for *all* backends.

> This problem seems to have been posted to the list a few times with no
> resolution I could find.

I still fail to see the problem actually.

> Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Zitat von Jeroen Vriesman <jeroen at hivos.nl>:
>>
>>> I've searched the archive for this, the subject seems to pop up
>>> sometimes, but I
>>> could't find a solution for my problem.
>>>
>>> I've setup turba to use ldap adressbooks, and some contacts have more
>>> than one
>>> mail attribute, turba doesn't handle that well, when you add one of these
>>> contact in the "To:" field from compose-addressbook, you get a  
>>> long line with
>>> all the addresses, formatted in a way the smtp server doesn't
>>> understand, e.g.:
>>>
>>> Name: email1 at domain, email2 at domain, ... ;
>>
>> SMTP servers understand this well.
>>
>> Jan.
>>
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Jan.

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