On 11/08/2010 03:31 PM, Dan White wrote:
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?
No this works well
Or are you retrieving the attribute to display is some
application?
Yes this is my problem
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.
