Re: Search for mail attribute fails

[Andreas Heilwagen <andreas.heilwagen@jamba.net>]

I tried that, but I still have no luck. slapd log:

conn=20 op=1 SRCH base="dc=office-b,dc=jamba,dc=net" scope=2 
filter="(mail=ja*)"
        AND
        DN SUBTREE
        OR
        EQUALITY
        SUBSTRINGS
ber_flush: 14 bytes to sd 24
conn=20 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 text=
conn=20 op=2 UNBIND
conn=-1 fd=24 closed
conn=-1 fd=25 closed
daemon: conn=21 fd=24 connection from IP=10.100.1.43:34266 
(IP=0.0.0.0:31746) accepted.
conn=21 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128
ber_flush: 14 bytes to sd 24
conn=21 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text=
begin get_filter
AND
begin get_filter_list
begin get_filter
EQUALITY
end get_filter 0
begin get_filter
EQUALITY
end get_filter 0
end get_filter_list
end get_filter 0


Jon Roberts wrote:
> 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