On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:44:47AM +0200, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote:
> On 7 Aug 2001, Karl Pitrich wrote:
> > btw, please read 'life with qmail-ldap', a quite neat howto.
> I've done it, and I understand how I can use
> mailAlternateAddress. But that's not m yproblem.
> Read my next post !
Seems like nobody understood you...
It makes sense to have something like a "primary" eMail address per Account.
Think of webmail apps where you need a default envelope sender. You simply
need it for compatibility. With standard setups using system users you
automatically have login@host as "primary" eMail address. Many apps rely on
such a thing. Thus there is the single value field mail and the multifield
mailAlternteAddress.
We do kinda emulate the login@host behaviour with using [EMAIL PROTECTED] as
mail attribute. Thus we don't need to worry about the race condition
described elsewhere in this thread and our customers define their addresses
only in mailAlternateAddress. This gives another valuable thingy: we can
always reach them at [EMAIL PROTECTED], no matter how they (mis-)configured
their accounts.
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