On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:47:22AM -0700, Eric Paynter wrote:
> On July 13, 2001 09:14 am, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 05:34:32PM +0200, Kaalh! wrote:
> > Why not just use another way to generate the uids. domain.com-user is very
> > common, and I'm more than happy with this scheme.
>
> That looks like a good scheme that we may migrate to over time. The problem
> is that our existing customer base is using the old scheme. We would have to
> work out a strategy to migrate that would not leave people unable to get
> their mail so that they can receive instructions on how to get their mail. ;)
I'm planning a patch that would allow them to use the mailalternateaddress
attribute (mail doesn't make sense for us as this is a kind of internal
address they never see, but that should be extendibale easily) as optional
authname soon. I won't do this until the next patch is out, though, as I'm
planning some more reworking then.
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