In Thunderbird 38.3.0 I saw very long waits accessing a company ldap of several
thousand entries.
In short, while composing a message, characters typed were matched against ldap
as they were entered.
Using Wireshark to examine the ldap packets, it was determined that the filter
used to collect the
matching entries was of the form '*chars*' where 'chars' are those I had typed
into the "To:" line of a
new email. There were three such patterns compared against different fields in
ldap. The problem lies
in the very inefficient '*' at each pattern's beginning. For normal use of the
ldap completion of an email
address this is a waste. The comparison is too general for the application.
Of course if it ran fast enough
I wouldn't be as concerned. In my case, however, it takes some 30 seconds of
searching per character I type.
The fix was a line like this in my prefs.js file with Tbird shutdown:
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.<my_server>.autoComplete.filterTemplate",
"(|(cn=%v1*)(mail=%v1*)(sn=%v1*))");
where you replace '<my_server>' with your own. Note that '%v1*' was previously
'*%v1*' in each case.
You should find your prefs.js under ~/.thunderbird/...
Now the response to each character in the 'To:' line of an email runs much less
than a second, and progressively
faster as more characters are entered. All as it should be.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320057
Title:
Thunderbird hangs for 10secs when auto-completing address
Status in Mozilla Thunderbird:
Confirmed
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird
This bug seems to be very old, but somehow I didn't find it in
Launchpad - forgive me if it's a dupe.
When composing a new mail, I start typing a few letters into the address bar
of the Thunderbird composer windows, and TB tries to autocomplete it from the
address book.
The drop-down menu appears, giving me the possibilities that start with the
letters I typed, BUT - Thunderbird hangs (compiz darkens the window) for
approx. 10 seconds - then it gets itself up again and processes complete
normally, no errors, no wrong behaviour - and the address book searches are
correct.
First I thought it was the prefs.js, see
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Long_time_to_open_address_book
Funny thing is, that I NEVER had used Thunderbird 1.5 before - but I had
about 50 lines with that "nonascii" in it.
I deleted them, and gone was the problem, for a few days.
TB worked normally.
Then the problem reoccurred.
Now my prefs.js is clean, and it still has the problem.
It might have something to do with LDAP search as well - I first thought it
has to do with that: I have a LDAP server on a openVPN network which is not
always connected - and I thought the delay was a network timeout when TB
searches for the LDAP and doesn't find it.
But I now disabled the LDAP address search in Thunderbird, and the problem
remains.
Also see here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=499016&p=2648760
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