[Kolab-devel] Solution for issue 343

[Martin Konold]

Am Montag, 6. September 2004 14:36 schrieb Matt Douhan:

Hi Matt,

> the [foo.bar.com] is used to NOT do mx/DNS lookups, an option is to let the
> user choose this at the entrypoint and if the user enters foo.bar.com it
> will do mx/DNS lookups but if the user enters [foo.bar.com] it will not do
> the mx/DNS lookup, and then store the entire string including or exlcluding
> the [ ] in the ldap directory.
>
> That is not to bad actually as it gives the best flexibility, the other way
> would have to have a checkbox to ask the user if they want mx/DNS lookups
> and that quickly bloats the GUI, it is simple enough to add a brief
> explanation of the meaning of the [ ] scenario.

I don't thunk that the checkbox bloats the GUI as it is less cumbersome 
compared to explaining some weird syntax people can get wrong.

Regards,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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