Re: mail and mailAlternateAddress

[Henning Brauer]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:58:22PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
> 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.

Before accepting a new entry in your interfaces run a search
(|(mail=newaddress)(mailalternateaddress=newaddress)) - if there's a result
don't use it...

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