Re: mail and mailAlternateAddress

[Przemyslaw Wegrzyn]

On 7 Aug 2001, 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.
> 

For me it's similar to UNIX hard links - many people think of
"original" file name and hard links to a file. But actually every file's
name is a hardlink to a particular inode, even the first one.

Let's return to qmail-ldap -> what is exact, semantic difference between
"mail" and "mailAlternateAddress" ? 
Can't we just use, say,  "mailAddress" ? What's the actual difference
between mail address and alternative mail address ?

I'm not familiar with LDAP so well yet, don't blame me if I'm totaly
wrong. If we use just one field, we can make it unique by schema
definition, and simply "schemacheck on" saves us much trouble, mentioned
in Scott's post ?

-=Czaj-nick=-