Subject: Implicit LDAP lookups in the composer

From: Ben Elliston <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:39:13 +1000 (EST)

I've just started to use LDAP with Pine.  It's great!

I have also stumbled across a problem--if an LDAP directory is marked with
the implict-lookup option and the server is down, it's impossible to leave
the To: field in the composer.  You're stuck!

Perhaps if the server is down, Pine should default to the normal behaviour
of doing no lookup?

Ben

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:44:37 -0700 (PDT)

That sounds dangerous to me. The normal behavior would be to add the local
domain name. It seems like that would be unlikely to be the address you
want, and may even be a different person. Most likely it would be an
unknown user. Seems like it is better to make the user decide what they
want to do manually.

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Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: Ben Elliston <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:48:57 +1000 (EST)

Oh--I did not realise that if I used an address with an FQDN, that Pine
would allow me to proceed in the composer.  In hindsight, I think this
behaviour is perfectly acceptable.

Cheers, Ben