The Ximian Evolution mail-client has a rather severe bug on Gentoo Linux. When I try adding addressbook-sources (in order to use LDAP addressbook), it simply segfaults. To reproduce; Select a contact-register, select "tools" from the menu, then "addressbook sources". When clicking add or edit the addressbook-component crashes. I do not believe this to be a 100% Evolution bug, as this works perfectly on RedHat (and the SRPM contains the same tarball which the ebuild builds from). This could have something to do with a missing Glade UI schema, according to this post; http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-desktop/2002-April/000005.html There has been created a bug at Ximian Bugzilla for this; http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23099 You might want to follow it and see what happens there. I have not done any extensive research on the problem, and it may very well be an error by Ximian - but I find it odd that this works on RedHat and not Gentoo.
Same problem here with 1.0.5. The Ximian bug refrenced in the opening has been closed. Any update?
It is trivial to set up your LDAP addressbook manually by editing the file addressbook-sources.xml in your evolution directory. The problem is knowing the format. Here is how to set it up for LDAP, using binddn authentication (email authentication may be a bit different) : <?xml version="1.0"?> <addressbooks> <contactserver> <name>My LDAP address book</name> <description>LDAP address database</description> <port>389</port> <host>ldap.domain.com</host> <rootdn>dc=domain,dc=com</rootdn> <scope>sub</scope> <authmethod>ldap/simple-binddn</authmethod> <binddn>cn=Me,dc=domain,dc=com</binddn> </contactserver> </addressbooks> You will (obviously) need to fill in your own settings.
I've attempted to add an ldap source by copying what a co-worker had set in his file (he's using redhat with ximian gnome). Same versions of evolution in both cases. The new ldap server shows up properly within evolution, but connection fails. The breakdown here seems to be more than just the ability to add (or modify) address book entries. The ability for them to function properly is gone as well.
Remember that you will need to have ldap in your USE variable when compiling Evolution for it to support LDAP addressbooks.
I have ldap in my use settings. When that didn't work, I emerged every package with ldap in the name and unmerged and merged evolution. Still no help.
Out of nowhere, ldap support now functions with the entries I added by hand. I still don't have the ability to add or edit entries, but the ones that are put there by hand function properly.
This is an upsatream bug that has been fiexed in the 1.0.8 release of evolution, which will be in portage soon. upstream bug: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17332
Created attachment 117126 [details, diff] Bug 2170
Created attachment 117127 [details, diff] Bug 2170
