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Latest News

23 May 2006, Drag and Drop Fix

Yesterday I checked in a patch to trunk (SeaMonkey 1.5a/Thunderbird 3.0a nightly builds) for Drag and Drop within address book. This greatly improves the current drag and drop functionality. In particular, mailing lists can now be correctly moved between address books. It will hopefully make its way into the branch in time for SeaMonkey 1.1a and Thunderbird 2.0a once its had a few days on trunk.

Please file any new bugs (there are still some drag and drop issues) in the "Core" product under Component "Mailnews: Address Books"

Roadmap & Work In Progress

The roadmap isn't detailed but gives a general short-long term outlook on where the address book is heading.

The roadmap also gives some idea of the work currently in progress.

Unfortunately, we can't give timescales as time available for developers is limited.

Help Wanted

There are many areas we wish to improve and would like help with, please have a look at the MailNews:Address Book Help Wanted page for more information.

Information Wanted

We'd like some information on how other products export LDIF files, please head over to MailNews_Talk:Address_Book_Help_Wanted and add some information if you are able to.

Useful Information

Address Book Code Structure in CVS

See MailNews:Address Book Code Structure for the structure of the address book code in cvs.

LDAP Logging

We've now enabled an LDAP logging facility on trunk builds of SeaMonkey and Thunderbird. More information may be found at LDAP Logging.

LDAP Alpha Schema

Before Thunderbird 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 we made some changes to the Address Book to allow more flexible attribute mapping. Additionally, the some of the default attributes changed, so we've put together an alpha version for the Mozilla Address Book schema find it here: LDAP Address Book Schema

LDAP c-sdk upgrade

We've just updated (2006-04-07) the LDAP c-sdk used by address book on trunk projects (Thunderbird 3.0 and SeaMonkey 1.5) to version 5.17. This may make it to Thunderbird 2.0/SeaMonkey 1.1 if no problems are reported with the upgrade.

Please test it if you can.

Wish List

What do you want to see in address book? Many wishes/enhancements have been discussed previously.

Please let us use the discussion for what ideas we would like to see address book include in future.