LDAP and other suggestions

[Luis Falcon <lfalcon thymbra com>]

Hi,
I'm a newcomer to BALSA and so far I love it. It's light, supports 
multiple accounts, very customizable and it has a great spellchecking 
backend.

The only major problem I have found is with the LDAP interface. It 
seems like it tries to get all the entries at once... most LDAP servers 
will refuse to return the info for security and performance reasons.
I checked the server using ldapsearch -z and it had no problems. I 
think that it would be best - not only for LDAP, but LDIF file also - 
to restrict the search upon the substring that is entered in the 
composition bar or in the search field of the adressbook.

So when composing a mail, after typing a couple of characters in the 
"To:" field, one can click on the adressbook icon and these characters 
would be passed as a paramenter to the LDAP server. This would result 
in a faster and better way of searching.

There are a couple of other things that I ran into :
1) Some email servers (including MS Exchange) put the user name in 
quotes ( ie, "John Smith" <john.smith@foo.bar> ). This really confuses 
BALSA, since when replying to it, it places ""John Smith"", findind an 
empty expression "" as a user. It would be great to check if the user 
name is already quoted before placing extra quotation marks. When 
replying to multiple entities, this problem becomes pretty ugly.

2) This is a cosmetic or habit one. Wouldn't it be better to place the 
Subject field at the very end ? PINE, Mozilla and other Mail clients do 
it like that, and as a habit I fall in the mistake of writing the 
subject into the CC field.


The rest looks just great. Just migrated a 6000+ entries mailbox and 
runs great. Congratulations to all the developers !


Regards,
Luis