mail app not searching receipents from ldap when sending email
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Description
Steps to reproduce
1.open mail app, select new message, From field is auto populated, To field is empty
2.type a few letters in To field
3.mail app should search system address book (accounts, nextcloud users)
4.mail app is not recommending receipents from ldap email addreses
Expected behavior
Mail app should recommend receipents groups and email addresses from LDAP)
Actual behavior
Mail app cannot find email addreses from LDAP / AD
Mail app version
3.4.2
Mailserver or service
No response
Operating system
Ubuntu 22
PHP engine version
PHP 8.0
Web server
Nginx
Database
MySQL
Additional info
When typing in To field mail app queries LDAP but searches for only objectclass=group, it sould query person too.
Below is a line from debug log when typing "tosearch" chars in the To field of New Message dialog.
Calling LDAP function ldap_search with parameters [{},"ou=some ou,dc=domain,dc=tld","(&(&(|(objectclass=group)))(|(cn=tosearch@)(cn=tosearch@*)))",["cn","dn"],0,0,-1,0,[{"oid":"1.2.840.113556.1.4.319","value":{"size":500,"cookie":""},"iscritical":false}]]","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/103.0.0.0","version":"27.1.1.0","data":{"app":"user_ldap"}
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First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the mail app's recipient search entry point and trace the LDAP search shown in the debug log, including the user_ldap integration. Verify how the LDAP filter handles groups and people, then test that LDAP or AD users, groups, and email addresses are recommended when typing in the To field.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- authentication, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100