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Latest News
19 Aug 2007, Read-only integration with Mac OS X Address Book
Trunk (SeaMonkey 2.0a1pre/Thunderbird 3.0a1pre) nightly builds now have the capability to access the Mac OS X address book in a read-only fashion. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203927#c169 for how to set it up. Bugs/issues with the integration should be filed as new bugs after having first checked for duplicates.
19 June 2007, Changing LDAP server parameters
Yesterday I checked in a fix for bug 124553 - this fixes the problems where changes to the LDAP server parameters weren't always picked up by new searches. It also means the various attributes on nsIAbLDAPDirectory now always report up-to-date values.
03 Apr 2007, Downloading LDAP Address Books for off-line use
SeaMonkey and Thunderbird releases have not been able to download LDAP address books for off-line use from servers that require authentication for several releases. Today I checked in the fix for that (bug 316170), so downloading for off-line use will now work for servers that require authentication and those that do not.
You can try out the new functionality in the latest SeaMonkey 1.5a/Thunderbird 3.0a nightly builds.
08 Mar 2007, Overriding the default LDAP Address Book schema
Recently I checked in (bug 370004) which means all the functionality relating to overriding the default LDAP Address Book schema should now work in SeaMonkey 1.1.1 (and above) and Thunderbird 2.0 (when released).
I've also got round to writing brief documentation on how to do it.
10 Feb 2007, csv import/export - Multi-line notes
I checked in bug 182128 earlier today (into trunk) which now means notes on multiple lines are supported in csv files. You'll be able to try this functionality out in the latest SeaMonkey 1.5a/Thunderbird 3.0a nightly builds.
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
General Links
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
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.