thunderbird LDAP autocomplete with Active Directory
The core problem is that the autocomplete while composing emails in Thunderbird uses a different LDAP filter than when you’re just looking in the address book. Depending on how your Exchange/Active Directory admins set up the attributes – and the design of the login names, we have 3 different styles in my company – you may “miss” finding people depending on how you type parts of their name.
Once your LDAP server is set up in Thunderbird it will have preferences based on the name you gave it; I’ll use MYSERVER below, replace with your correct name.
- Open the Thunderbird Preferences, select the Advanced -> General tab
- Click Config Editor (dismiss the warning if it appears)
- Rightmouse click and chose New -> String Value to add these items (so repeat the process for each pair below):
Preference name: ldap_2.servers.MYSERVER.attrmap.DisplayName Preference value: displayName Preference name: ldap_2.servers.MYSERVER.autoComplete.commentFormat Preference value: [displayName] Preference name: ldap_2.servers.MYSERVER.autoComplete.nameFormat Preference value: [displayName] Preference name: ldap_2.servers.MYSERVER.autoComplete.filterTemplate Preference value: (|(mail=*%v*)(displayName=*%v*)(givenName=*%v*)(sn=*%v*)(cn=*%v*))
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle. (Go Joe!)
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Note that attributes in search filters might require that those attributes be indexed by the administrators. Your directory server administrators should provide guidance as to which attributes should be used when searching a directory for whatever purpose.
Terry Gardner
2011-10-24 at 05:36