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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

If we started Sympa develoments right now, we would probably make the 
primary keys something different than the user email address.
But we've got quite a few lines of code and i doubt we ever change this 
primary key. The best we could do, in the future, is check alternate 
email addresses everywhere it is required.

Scott Balmos wrote:

> I'm pretty sure I understand the line of thought in the article you 
> mentioned. user_table & subscriber_table wouldn't change really. But 
> when WWSympa authenticates against LDAP, it would collect up any and 
> all email address attributes, and allow a selection of which email 
> address to use for subscribe operations, etc? Thus a "user" is just an 
> LDAP authentication object, with one or more email addresses. None of 
> the email addresses have to be canonic, or really any concept of a 
> "master" email address, because all addresses are equally separate 
> from each other.
>
> Any of this in CVS yet, or any way I can possibly help it along? :D 
> Having this ability for a user to select one of many email addresses 
> "registered" to themselves is rather crucial for me. Not only because 
> of the mixed-account setup that I talked about, but also many of my 
> users maintain separate addresses for each list they belong to. And I 
> want all of those addresses to be authenticatable from that user's 
> single LDAP entry.
>
> Olivier Salaun - CRU wrote:
>
> > 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
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Olivier Salaün
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