Re: mail aliases

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Craig White wrote:
What I used to do in openldap was use an objectclass
inetLocalMailRecipient which was defined in the 'misc.schema' and my
primary usage was to use an attribute inetLocalMailAddress to stuff
additional addresses as aliases because I struggled with multiple values
in the mail attribute.

The mail attribute is not multi-valued.


Obviously I can import the openldap schema that I was using into FDS but
now I am thinking that it is probably a better idea to re-examine my
usage.

Why?


To reduce my questions to basic...

- is the mail attribute multi-valued?

No.

- How do I determine which attributes are multi-valued?

Attributes are multi-valued by default. If you want them to be single-valued, you must specify it in the schema:

attributeTypes: (
  1.3.6.1.4.1.300.1.8.1
  NAME 'fooName'
  DESC 'Foo Name'
  SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26
  SINGLE-VALUE
  )

- Is there an attribute better used for mail aliases?

That depends on the usage. If you are setting up an MTA to do deliveries based on LDAP queries, then the MTA might use multiple attributes.

Qmail-LDAP reads "mail" first, and then "mailAlternateAddress" (which is multi-valued) second. So, with Qmail-LDAP, a user's main address is assigned to mail and all subsequent addresses are assigned to mailAlternateAddress.

See the following schema for examples:

http://www.bayour.com/openldap/schemas/qmail.schema


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mike

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