Re: [Dbmail] Is there a nead for a users description table

2004-05-15 Thread Curtis Maurand
I put all of this in the front-end management system. The dbmail tables are part of that as are the powerdns tables and virtual webserver information. Curtis -- Curtis Maurand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maurand.com On Thu, 13 May 2004, Feargal Reilly wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2004

Re: [Dbmail] Is there a nead for a users description table

2004-05-14 Thread Paul J Stevens
Isn't this issue moot as soon as dbmail gets proper ldap support. GECOS field eat your heart out. fwiw, ldap support will have my vote as top required feature as soon as 2.1 is out. Jacques Beaudoin wrote: Hi all Some time i wish i could have some fields in dbmail where i could input users

RE: [Dbmail] Is there a nead for a users description table

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Darley
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Will Berry Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 10:11 AM To: DBMail mailinglist Subject: Re: [Dbmail] Is there a nead for a users description table Feargal Reilly wrote: >I had a look last night and could not find a formal definition o

Re: [Dbmail] Is there a nead for a users description table

2004-05-14 Thread Will Berry
Feargal Reilly wrote: I had a look last night and could not find a formal definition of it. Common usage however indicated that most flavours of unix treat it the same. It is a comma seperated list which takes the following order: Full name, Office Location/Room Number, Office/Work Phone Number

Re: [Dbmail] Is there a nead for a users description table

2004-05-14 Thread Feargal Reilly
On Thu, 13 May 2004 15:32:07 -0400 Will Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Feargal Reilly wrote: > > >... it's then up to the end-user as to how they use it ... > > > > Since the exact format and treatment of a 'gecos' field would be defined > by the application, I think it's best to use the cl

Re: [Dbmail] Is there a nead for a users description table

2004-05-13 Thread Will Berry
Feargal Reilly wrote: ... it's then up to the end-user as to how they use it ... Since the exact format and treatment of a 'gecos' field would be defined by the application, I think it's best to use the client_idnr field in the user table as a pointer to any application-specific data in ano

Re: [Dbmail] Is there a nead for a users description table

2004-05-13 Thread Jacques Beaudoin
Hi all If there is a field like GECOS in dbmail i will use it in many ways. Bien à vous Jacques Selon Feargal Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 13 May 2004 09:49:18 +0200 > Ilja Booij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know if this should be a part of DBMail itself. I can see it how

Re: [Dbmail] Is there a nead for a users description table

2004-05-13 Thread Feargal Reilly
On Thu, 13 May 2004 12:43:03 +0100 Feargal Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like you I'm not convinced as to whether it belongs in dbmail itself, but if > it did, the cleanest solution would be a single 'class' field in the user > table. Meant to add that it's then up to the end-user as to h

Re: [Dbmail] Is there a nead for a users description table

2004-05-13 Thread Feargal Reilly
On Thu, 13 May 2004 09:49:18 +0200 Ilja Booij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if this should be a part of DBMail itself. I can see it how > it would be useful, but I don't think it should be a part of dbmail proper. Actually, when you consider dbmail is replacing the need for system us

Re: [Dbmail] Is there a nead for a users description table

2004-05-13 Thread Ilja Booij
I don't know if this should be a part of DBMail itself. I can see it how it would be useful, but I don't think it should be a part of dbmail proper. Ilja Jacques Beaudoin wrote: Hi all Some time i wish i could have some fields in dbmail where i could input users specific data like - is supe