> Yes, but as I see it this function is anyway only used to store > e-mail addresses together with a name, so that the e-mail address is > available for composing new mails. > > For a complete contact entry the data needs to be entered anyhow > separately (or at least the automatically stored contact needs to be > heavily amended) and a compatible UID could be assigned in this case. > > So using the e-mail as UID should be ok in this case and would fit to > the current behaviour, where mail is used as RDN. as I know, this is today not possible: you have to choose if you want UID or email as RDN!
> Using a UID generated by a standard PHP function (e.g. uniqid) should > be fine as well. Maybe with 'RC-' as prefix. > >> thus creating new contacts is kind of problematic, isnt it? >> Or is there an officially accepted way to build them? E.g. just >> increasing a number until it is not occupied allready? > > I would assume that PHP provides a function to generate a GUID > (Globally Unique Identifier)? the function is not the problem, but the ID should be unique on your server! In general, we should have a config option for how to build new UID's Andreas _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/ BT/8f4f07cd
