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LDAP Logging
We have now enabled LDAP Logging on Release builds on the trunk and the 1.8.1 branch (aka SeaMonkey 1.1.x/Thunderbird 2.0a and 2.0b)
The LDAP logging can be used to view the messages that the Address Book is sending and receiving to/from your LDAP server. We hope that this will aid debugging problems on an LDAP link.
To enable logging set the environment variable "NSPR_LOG_MODULES" to ldap:5 (see links below for how to do this) and start up Address Book, then attempt an LDAP search or autocomplete and the connection/message process will be logged to the console.
For ease of logging, you may wish to also set the NSPR_LOG_FILE to a file location so that you don't need to capture the file output. See the links below on how to set this up.
See these links for more detail:
Trunk nightlies are available from:
Branch nightlies are available from:
LDAP Address Book Schema
The address book code specifies default settings for communicating with LDAP servers.
The default settings are specified in a defined schema, currently in an alpha version. Setting up a LDAP server with this schema, and setting up the address book (Thunderbird or SeaMonkey) to talk to that LDAP server will enable all fields to work correctly.
TODO: Detail how to override the default schema for LDAP address books.