[turba] Browsing shared directory doesn't pull all records from LDAP

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Sean Coleman wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am not a LDAP person so please bear with me. I set up my shared LDAP
> addressbook
> using the settings I use for my addressbook in Thunderbird. When I
> browse the addressbook
> and select all, it only shows entries from A - C. When I click on a
> letter at the top of the screen
> which is greater than C, I get back "No matching contacts".
>
> I have determined that sizelimit has something to do with it. When I set
> it to 6, I did get back
> 6 entries from the letter A when browsing all. I increased the value to
> 10000 and still only got
> back entries from A to the middle of C. Is there an external limit I am
> hitting with LDAP which
> has nothing to do with turba? If there is no limitation, is there
> something I can do to the configuration
> so all the entries are retrieved?

Sean,

Some LDAP servers have a configurable limit on the number of entries 
returned.  We use the Sun Directory Server here, and I have it configured 
to return a maximum of 200 entries unless the connection is authenticated 
as an administrator.

If I use ldapsearch to look for names containing "smith", it will return 
200 entries followed by:

# search result
search: 2
result: 4 Size limit exceeded

# numResponses: 201
# numEntries: 200


You could use the ldapsearch tool similarly and see if it says "Size limit 
exceeded" on your LDAP server.  You LDAP administrator can probably answer 
these questions also.

 	Andy