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 :
dupontj@domain.tld ( which is unixlogin@domain.tld ) j.dupont@domain.tld ( which is the alias that point to duponj@domain.tld )
Students have only one email adress of the form : unixlogin@domain.tld
In many applications we use LDAP to fetch the user's email address and other data.
The problem is sometime we get unixlogin@domain.tld and sometime we get emailalias@domain.tld
I would like to do the following :
if a user has an alias of the form emailalias@domain.tld then display it first
Is it possible to reorder my LDAP database to do so ?
Thanks a lot !
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 :
dupontj@domain.tld ( which is unixlogin@domain.tld ) j.dupont@domain.tld ( which is the alias that point to duponj@domain.tld )
Students have only one email adress of the form : unixlogin@domain.tld
In many applications we use LDAP to fetch the user's email address and other data.
The problem is sometime we get unixlogin@domain.tld and sometime we get emailalias@domain.tld
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 emailalias@domain.tld 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.
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 :
dupontj@domain.tld ( which is unixlogin@domain.tld ) j.dupont@domain.tld ( which is the alias that point to duponj@domain.tld )
Students have only one email adress of the form : unixlogin@domain.tld
In many applications we use LDAP to fetch the user's email address and other data.
The problem is sometime we get unixlogin@domain.tld and sometime we get emailalias@domain.tld
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 emailalias@domain.tld 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.
--On Monday, November 08, 2010 5:12 PM +0100 Frank Bonnet f.bonnet@esiee.fr wrote:
Or are you retrieving the attribute to display is some application?
Yes this is my problem
man slapo-valsort
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Engineer Zimbra, Inc -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
Thanks a lot !
On 11/08/2010 05:41 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Monday, November 08, 2010 5:12 PM +0100 Frank Bonnet f.bonnet@esiee.fr wrote:
Or are you retrieving the attribute to display is some application?
Yes this is my problem
man slapo-valsort
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Engineer Zimbra, Inc
Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
openldap-technical@openldap.org
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