Keith,
If you only need 'forward' email for a particular username in one of your
IMail domains, you might consider an 'Alias' and the 'addalias.exe', CLU.
Aliases are processed before usernames, so if you have both a user and alias
of the same name, the alias would forward the email and the user account (if
really needed) could have the other user info (like for LDAP). Aliases are
not stored in the external DB. You might want to add a field to the DB (only
after the 9 IMail uses!) to indicated there is one, or store the alias
address. Then when the user gets removed, some other action could be
performed to remove the alias.
However, if one of your users already has another email address and uses
that, you do not need an IMail address (user or alias) for them to continue
using that address. That mail would never come to your IMail server!
Adduser does not have the capability of adding any more info (i.e. for LDAP)
than the fields it uses. You would have to use some other method
(ldaper.exe, for inputing LDAP data found on the General tab, found on the
IMail Utilities page) to perform this action.
Daniel Donnelly
Ipswitch Technical Support
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 12:54 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Adding users with custom attributes
> Hello all,
>
> I am looking for some advanced help on this one. Here is the problem:
>
> We are a free ISP (www.homefreeweb.com) during our registration procedure
we
> capture many fields of information to our user database (MS SQL 7.0) one
> field which we would like to use is the users other email account. Some
of
> our users don't have a "homefreeweb.com" email address and for
> understandable reasons prefer to use the one which their friends, family
and
> contacts already have.
>
> We would like to automatically set these users (50,000)up with a
> "homefreeweb" mail account (hosted on our Imail Server) with forwarding
> enabled to their existing accounts. I have looked at the "adduser.exe"
> command line utility. It doesn't seem to have this functionality built
into
> it. We are also looking at the possibility which may require us to modify
> the information in LDAP to accomplish this but are not sure where to
begin.
>
> We would appreciate any input you may have.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Keith Williams CNE, MCSE, CCIE
> Director, Operations Homefreeweb
> http://www.homefreeweb.com
>
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