To Set Up Email Aliases

If you need to setup email aliases for a calendar user, add the mailalternateaddress attribute to the user's LDAP entry. The mail attribute provides the primary mail address, and the mailalternateaddress attribute is used for email aliases. Both attributes map the mail addresses to the user’s calendar ID (calid).

You can add the attribute using the Calendar Server Utility csattribute, or by directly updating LDAP with ldapmodify. The following example uses csattribute.

To enable these changes, you might also need to rebuild alias tables or configurations. Refer to the documentation for Messaging Server (or your email product) as well as your site's own documentation and procedures regarding changes to mail services. Messaging Server documentation is available on this at: http://docs.sun.com/coll/1312.1.

Example 14–1 Adding an Email Alias with csattribute

For example, to add the mailalternateaddress attribute for a user named John Smith with these values:

• User ID (uid) and calid: johnsmith

• password: password for John Smith

• Email address: john.smith@sesta.com

• Email aliases: johns@sesta.com and jsmith@sesta.com

csattribute -a mailalternateaddress=johns@sesta.com add johnsmith
 csattribute -a mailalternateaddress=jsmith@sesta.com add johnsmith