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[Sébastien Beyou <address@concealed>]

Le Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:57:32 +0100, Brian Thompson <address@concealed> a  
écrit :
> Warren G Anderson wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'd like to be able to specify in LDAP alternate email addresses for our
> > users so that they can send email from any of their email addresses to a
> > closed list and be authenticated properly. Just listing them all as
> > primary email addresses won't work because then they will get a copy
> > of emails from the list at all the different addresses they own. So,
> > I want a closed list to accept many different addresses for a each
> > user for inbound mail but send to only one address for each user for
> > outbound mail - and as I say, I'd like to manage that with LDAP. Is
> > there a way of doing that?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Warren
> Hi Warren,
>
> I know there's an option in the LDAP data source configuration
> called "selection (if multiple)" which can be changed from "all" to
> "first". It seems that would solve the multiple recipient problem
> but I'm not sure if it addresses the authentication problem.
>
> -Brian

Hi,

I've asked this question a few days ago on the sympa-fr list and David  
Verdin answered me the alternative_email_attribute (which should have this  
role) in auth.conf has not effect because of problems. However the  
solution you give could be used to do that.

Response of David Verdin  
<https://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-fr/2009-02/msg00030.html> :
It's unfortunately normal. The management of alternative emails don't work  
well (nor has a simple solution in the case of mailing lists) and we  
desactivated this fonctionnality. Although it is still possible to save an  
alternative email, this one is no more taken into account.

Sébastien