Chris Dukes wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:41:03PM +0100, Christoph Holtermann wrote: >> I use LDAP for storing my contacts. I keep thinking about the >> simple case of people having multiple email. One case >> would be to have an attribute "mail" another one "mozillaSecond >> Email". On the other hand I know that it >> is possible to store multiple values in the corresponding LDAP- >> attribute. but i wonder how it could be possible to also store >> an additional information about these email. > > If you're caring from an MTA perspective... > Postfix's LDAP maps suggest a 'maildrop' attribute for calculating actual > delivery.
'maildrop' has a different semantics. > And now a suggestion so you can spend an afternoon seeing what it > breaks... > Well, atleast in my LDAP schemas the mail attribute has syntax > 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 > > And looking at 6.10 of RFC2252 > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2252 > > You can put any unicode string there you want to such > as > Christoph Holtermann Obsolete <c.holterm...@foo.bar> This is IMO bad advice since MUAs expect only the raw e-mail address in attribute 'mail' (see section 2.16 in RFC 4524) which also contains some other interesting notes. Ciao, Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Python-LDAP-dev mailing list Python-LDAP-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/python-ldap-dev
