--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Damian Krzeminski <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Damian Krzeminski <[email protected]>
> Subject: [sipX-dev] IM IDs as aliases
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 9:26 PM
> JIRA is a poor place to have a
> conversation, so I am bringing this here:
>
> Robert writes:
> http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-7170?focusedCommentId=45877
>
> "I think that there is one sipXconfig issue that remains.
> Here is the scenario:
>
> If I create a SIP user called 'X' and assign it IM ID 'Y'
> and then I try to
> create a new SIP user called 'Y', sipXconfig will refuse
> that on the
> grounds that the default IM ID it would assign to SIP user
> 'Y' would
> collide with the IM ID of SIP user 'X'.
>
> In general, it should be possible to add a new SIP user in
> sipXconfig even
> if its SIP user ID happens to match the IM ID of another
> SIP user.
> SipXconfig could be smarter in its default IM ID generation
> to avoid such
> collision (e.g. append a '_2')."
>
> I don't think it's true. I think sipXconfig refuses to
> create 'Y' because
> of the SIP alias conflict.
Actually I think Robert is right - it collides with IM ID uniqueness rule and
therefore user creation fails.
>
> I still don't think we can have it both ways and -
> regardless of an 'alias
> issue' - I think that generating default IM IDs that would
> work around
> naming conflict is a *bad* idea.
What can be done here is to use an empty IM ID for this case - afterwards
enabling the IM Account will fail if a valid IM ID is not provided.
George
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