Primary email address woes

[Gerald Brandt]

On 2015-10-19 08:13 PM, Dugite-Code wrote:
>
> As far as I understand it after the login is authenticated against the 
> 389 Directory Server it returns the primary user-name. So other than 
> editing how the primary user-name is generated (See: 
> http://lists.kolab.org/pipermail/users/2015-August/019679.html) I 
> don't think there is a way to show the right one.
> One potential solution could be to hide the class "username" in the css
> ---
> Regards
> Dugite-Code https://github.com/dugite-code/
>
> On 2015-10-20 4:02 am, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I type in a users name in Webmail, it shows the users primary 
>> email address.  In our case, because we are moving from an existing 
>> system, the primary email address is not the REAL email address. The 
>> one that gets sent out to the world.
>>
>> There's gotta be a way to change this.  I was just about ready to go 
>> live.  Can it somehow use the requested identity of the user, as set 
>> in preferences?
>>
>> IMAP and SMTP login are also a PITA, though only at setup.  The web 
>> page will let the user login with gbr, even if their primary email is 
>> gerald.brandt.  But Postfix and Cyrus insist on 
>> primary_email at full.domain <mailto:primary_email at full.domain>
>>
>> Gerald
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I don't know why Kolab won't just let me enter the primary email 
address.  Why all the auto generated stuff.  I have at least 3 different 
'primary' email address formats for users, depending on who was admining 
the systems over the years.

Gerald

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