Email Alias (mailalternateaddress Attribute)

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

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

• User ID (uid) and calid: johnsmith

• Email address: john.smith@sesta.com

• Email Alias’s: johns@sesta.com and jsmith@sesta.com

Use these Calendar Server utility commands:

# ./csuser -g John -s Smith -y password -l en -m john.smith@sesta.com 
\ -c johnsmith create johnsmith
# ./csattribute -a mailalternateaddress=johns@sesta.com add johnsmith
# ./csattribute -a mailalternateaddress=jsmith@sesta.com add johnsmith