<div dir="ltr">Torsten,<div><br></div><div><pre class="" id="comment_text_3" style="white-space:pre-wrap;width:50em;color:rgb(0,0,0)">When I use 

primary_mail = '%(givenname)s'[0:1]%(surname)s@%(domain)s

It shows properly in web interface:

screenshot (minus the domain name):

<a href="http://cl.ly/image/3y0m1b0t1H2N" style="color:rgb(102,51,102)">http://cl.ly/image/3y0m1b0t1H2N</a>


I changed in kolab.conf to:

primary_mail =  "%(givenname).1s%(surname)@%(domain)"

also tried:

primary_mail = '{initial}{surname}@{domain}'.format(initial=first_name[0].lower(), surname=surname.lower(), domain=domain)

But does not give me output on web admin:

screenshot: 

<a href="http://cl.ly/image/1v2o131Q3j2u" style="color:rgb(102,51,102)">http://cl.ly/image/1v2o131Q3j2u</a></pre></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Torsten Grote <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:torsten@kolab.org" target="_blank">torsten@kolab.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Monday 31 August 2015 20:44:24 Paul Bronson wrote:<br>
> primary_mail = '%(givenname)s'[0:1]%(surname)s@%(domain)s<br>
<br>
</span>Please check the python syntax of that statement. This is what I am getting:<br>
<br>
>>> params = { "givenname":"Hans", "surname":"Wurst", "domain":"fleischer" }<br>
>>> print "'%(givenname)s'[0:1]%(surname)s@%(domain)s" % params<br>
'Hans'[0:1]Wurst@fleischer<br>
<br>
And this is probably not how you want your email addresses to look like.<br>
<br>
Kind Regards,<br>
Torsten<br>
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