Karl Pitrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 07 Aug 2001 21:16:29 +0200, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote:
> >
> > BTW, what's the purpose of having both "mail" and
> > "mailAlternateAddress" filed types ?
> > Both of them are actually used upon delivery to map mail address into
> > UID, isn't is this way ?
> >
>
> as the name mailAlternateAddress suggests, it is used for _addidtional_
> alternate adresses, other than 'mail'.
>
> ie:
>
> mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> mailAlternateAddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> mailAlternateAddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> so, joe will receive mails sent to any of these adresses to his
> 'mailMessageStore', provided that the domains are local ;-)
While we're on this topic, is there a reasonable way to reliably
guarantee uniqueness across both the 'mail' and 'mailalternateaddress'
attributes? We finally stopped using 'mail' altogether, because we
couldn't find a way to make this work without race conditions.
-----ScottG.
