Re: Search for mail attribute fails

[Jon Roberts <jon@mentata.com>]

Andreas Heilwagen wrote:
> But looking for mail addresses (simplified form of a Mozilla LDAP query) 
> fails:
>
>   ldapsearch -x -b "dc=office-b,dc=jamba,dc=net" "(mail=j*)"
>
> The entry at the end of the mail should show up as answer to the mail 
> query. The only reference to the mail attribute in my slapd.conf is
>
>   index           mail eq
>
> Any idea what precondition has to be fulfilled to get an answer to the 
> query for a mail address (debian woody, openldap 2.0.23)?

This may not be your whole problem, but you are performing a substring 
search on an attribute that has only been indexed for equality. Try

index	mail eq,sub

Jon Roberts
www.mentata.com