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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Scott,

This question regarding alternate email is often asqued, therefore I've 
written something detailed about what Sympa does and what it will do in 
the future : http://www.sympa.org/fom-serve/cache/247.html

Scott Balmos wrote:

> I'm trying to use the alternative_email_attribute directive from 
> auth.conf in my LDAP auth paragraph. Maybe I'm thinking down the wrong 
> lines here. Could someone fill me in? Here's my desired usage setup:
>
> Users on my system are mixed between people who have local mail 
> accounts on my system, and users who have forward-only mail accounts. 
> Regardless, everyone has a mail attribute in LDAP of the form 
> address@concealed. The forward-only people have a 
> mailForwardingAddress attribute in LDAP, pointing to where their mail 
> is forwarding to. email_attribute in my LDAP paragraph in auth.conf, 
> corresponding to the canonic email address, is set to "mail". So no 
> matter whether the user has a local mail account, or is forward-only, 
> the canonic email address Sympa receives is the address@concealed 
> address.
>
> Now, when I log into WWSympa, the canonic email address is displayed, 
> and some debug log code I wrote confirms that the 
> mailForwardingAddress alternate email is being read and set into the 
> session cookie. But going to the user preferences page does not show 
> any alternate email addresses. Also, when the user goes to subscribe 
> to a list, I was thinking there would be some menu or dialog of sorts 
> that asks if the user wants to subscribe with the canonic, or one of 
> the alternate, email addresss.
>
> I really need this alternate email address system to work, because my 
> forward-only users will be sending emails to their subscribed lists 
> from their local ISP addresses (the alternate email address), not the 
> local alias address which Sympa uses as the canonic address. 
> Otherwise, Sympa wouldn't know they really were a subscriber, and 
> would reject the email.
>
> Let me know if I'm completely off-track in how I'm thinking this 
> through, or if there's something else I need to check. Sorry for being 
> such a pest on the support list lately. :)


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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités
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