Thanks alot Tony! I'll look into that. For the moment, I've removed the user
info from KWM, just to avoid headaches right now.

> There were two major things:
> - In the Plat implementation, they did not create a new db column for the
> 'fullname' of the user (why they did this I have NO idea besides simple
> oversight).  If you look at the view closely, the 'fullname' and the
> 'username' both reference the same column - this is why when your user
> updates their user data in webmail, their username portion of their email
> address gets overwritten with their "real name/fullname" - immediately
> screwing their email account up BAD.  To fix this, you need to create a
> 'fullname' column in the email_data table, then adjust your views
> accordingly, so that the username and fullname fields aren't jumbled into
> the same column anymore.  Just doing that will fix your 'editing user data
> changes the email address as well' problem.

Wonder why Boardtown hasn't mentioned that? I know they know of this
problem.......


> - The rest of the tweaks involve working with the odbcuser.dll source.

I think that one's beyond me at the moment..... =)

> If I had 7.x odbcuser.dll I would definately share, but I still have only
a
> 6.x system right now, so there could be some more little stuff that needs
to
> be tweaked for a 7.x integration, but I don't know yet.  I can tell you
that
> I will be tackling it within the next month or two, as the powers that be
> have suddenly become geeked about calendaring and some other stuff not in
> 6.x. :-)  On a consultant basis off list we could focus on it much sooner
if
> you needed more immediate assistance - but it wouldn't be too much as we
> need to do it for ourselves anyways.

Well, the worst is taken care of at the moment, <I HOPE!> but I'll certainly
keep that in mind.

> Hope this helps, welcome to 2003!  :-)

It helps! Believe me! Happy New Year!

Paul


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