On 08/11/10 09:26 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote:
Hello
I'm facing a cosmetic problem with email aliases.
Some users has aliases for their email adresses some has not.
For example a professor named Jean Dupont has two valid email adresses :
[email protected] ( which is [email protected] )
[email protected] ( which is the alias that point to
[email protected] )
Students have only one email adress of the form : [email protected]
In many applications we use LDAP to fetch the user's email address
and other data.
The problem is sometime we get [email protected] and sometime we
get [email protected]
Are you having a problem with your SMTP server not delivering to the
correct mailbox? Or are you retrieving the attribute to display is some
application?
I would like to do the following :
if a user has an alias of the form [email protected] then display
it first
Is it possible to reorder my LDAP database to do so ?
I am not aware of a way to order attributes or values.
An alternative approach that I've used, where I may have multiple mailDrop
attributes for an alias (or may not have any aliases at all for a given
mailbox) but want to return one consistent primary entry to our spam
filtering device, is to populate another, unique, attribute solely for the
purpose of returning a consistent value to that particular application, and
is unused by our SMTP server.
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Dan White
