Re: [eGroupWare-users] FIXED(patch maybe?): felamimail use displayName as From:

[Ralf B. <Ral...@di...>]

Hi Brian,

please open a bug report for that (www.egroupware.org/bugs) and assign
category Api for it.

Ralf

Brian Dial schrieb:
> I finally trakced this down.  I'm not really much of a programmer so I
> wouldn't attempt to make a patch but I'd like to suggest this for
> inclusion in a future version.
> 
> in phpgwapi/inc/class.accounts_ldap.inc.php line 99
> 
> $this->data['fullname']    =
> $GLOBALS['egw']->translation->convert($allValues[0]['cn'][0],'utf-8');
> 
> I changed this to
> 
> $this->data['fullname']    =
> $GLOBALS['egw']->translation->convert($allValues[0]['displayname'][0],'utf-8');
> 
> cn is not always a users full name in many ldap trees.  Ours is in fact
> the username, so i am cn=bdial,etc... but my displayname attribute is
> Brian Dial.  So now felamimail correctly displays in the From: field
> 
> Brian Dial <bd...@rk...>   instead of    bdial
> <bd...@rk...>
> 
> displayName or fullName is whats usually used in ldap.  This is what
> programs like outlook express will return when doing ldap searches as a
> user's name.  Maybe a conditional to check for a value of displayname or
> fullname before setting it to cn?
> 
> -Brian
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Dial wrote:
>> When using felamimail in egw1.2.105 and sending an e-mail, the from
>> field displays my username, not my full name.  , for me it shows   bdial
>> <bd...@rk...>
>>
>> We are using ldap backend.  the username is our cn and uid, so i am like
>>
>> cn=bdial,ou=etc...
>>
>> But we do have fullName, lastName, etc... filled out and egroupware sees
>> it in the user information.
>>
>> I wathced the queries to my ldap tree and felamimail seems to only query
>> for uid and not for anything else.  Is there a way to make felamimail
>> use displayName or fullName attributes in the "From" field?
>>
>> Brian
>>
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