[rt-users] Re: Users with multiple e-mail addresses, and their ACL rights

[Victor Danilchenko]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, seph wrote:

>Victor Danilchenko <danilche at cs.umass.edu> writes:
>
>> 	yes, I have read these sources, and I am aware of
>> canonicalization. We have it enabled; but it's not enough. For example,
>> we have multiple aliases for the mail server, and we canonicalize those;
>> but many people have mail addresses outside the department, and others
>> have distinct mail addresses within the department (for example, a user
>> who is also a support person for a research group, with a distinct alias
>> for that, and who corresponds both from his canonical address and the
>> said support address).
>
>It sounds like you're using rt3. rt3's CanonicaizeEmail function starts
>out as a pretty simple search and replace, however rt3 allows you to
>redefine most internal functions. So override it, and have it do what
>you want. Use a giant lookup map, use an external db, whatever you can
>code you can have.

	Hey, that's a thought -- I could overload it to look up a table
of e-mail aliases... Cool, I will look into it. thanks.

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