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[Warren G Anderson <address@concealed>]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the info. So, pulling the desired email address by
perl regex will definitely be the way to get the internal
address selected into the list, I guess.

But that leaves open the question of how to accept mail from
any other value in the attribute.

Cheers,
Warren

On Feb 5, 2009, at 18:26 , address@concealed wrote:

>     Warren Anderson recently posted (in part):
>
> > Alternatively, I could make sure that this is the first value
> > in the mail attribute and set "selection=first" for the LDAP
> > data source.
>
>     I was always under the *impression* that the order of the
>     values returned from a multivalued LDAP attribute had no
>     guaranteed order.  So I did a very quick bit of research and
>     found:
>
> "Note that multivalue attributes hold a set of values with no
> particular order. There is no guarantee that multivalue
> attributes are ever going to be returned in the order in which
> they were stored (or in any other order)."
>
>                     Microsoft TechNet article for
>                     Active Directory
>
>
> "If an attribute is multi-valued, there is no intrinsic order
> attached to those values, though order is sometimes preserved."
>
>                     "Central Authentication Service Through
>                      LDAP"  Northwestern University
>
>
>     In all my reading about LDAP, I don't recall ever reading
>     that order is preserved, so I have assumed that it shouldn't
>     be counted on.  You may find with that with your particular
>     software, the order *is* preserved.  But just be aware that
>     with some future version of your software, that behavior
>     could change.
>
>     If anybody has a more definitive answer to this question, I
>     for one would love to hear it.
>
>                                                    ...BC
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