Import an address book in LDIF
Somebody arriving from SOGo, Thunderbird or an LDAP directory has their contacts in LDIF, and until now the only way in was vCard. Nothing on the server reads LDIF, so this reads it here, in two pieces that are two different problems. `ldif.ts` is RFC 2849 and nothing else: folded lines, base64 values, case-insensitive attribute names, options, comments, `version:` headers, change records. It knows no attribute by name. `mozillaAb.ts` knows the attributes and no syntax -- Mozilla's address book schema, which is what Thunderbird and SOGo write and what the issue asks for by name. LDIF says nothing about what any attribute means, so a file is only readable against a schema, and keeping the two apart is what would let a second schema be added without touching the reader. Work and home addresses, which the schema keeps in two separate sets of attributes, come across as two addresses. So do every phone kind, the second email, the organisation and its units, job title, nickname, web pages and the AIM handle. The four custom fields have no equivalent in JSContact and are appended to the note, labelled as Thunderbird labels them: keeping something somebody chose to write down is worth more than the tidiness of dropping it. An entry with neither a name nor an address is skipped rather than imported as a blank row that is impossible to identify and tedious to find again to delete. The distinguished name is not used as the contact's uid: it says where an entry sat in somebody else's directory. One import control takes either format and decides by what is in the file rather than by what it is called, because an address book exported as LDIF arrives as .ldif, .ldi, .txt or with no extension at all. Closes #174
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- **Search** across name, address, organisation and notes, in one book or all.
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- **vCard import** through `ContactCard/parse` (a file of any number of cards),
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and **export** of one card or the whole book as `.vcf`.
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- **LDIF import**, for address books coming from SOGo, Thunderbird or an LDAP
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directory. Nothing on the server reads LDIF, so the file is read here:
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RFC 2849 for the syntax, [Mozilla's address book schema][ldif-schema] for what
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the attributes mean, which is the one such exports almost always use. Work and
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home addresses, every phone kind, second email, organisation and units, job
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title, nickname, web pages and the custom fields all come across. The import
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control takes either format and decides by what is in the file, not by what it
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is called.
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[ldif-schema]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Mozilla_LDAP_Address_Book_Schema
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- **Directory lookup** through `Principal/query`, so colleagues on the server
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can be addressed without being in an address book first.
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- **Recent recipients**, kept on the device — and only on a device you said was
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