Contains the e-mail address of the user. The name must conform to the established conventions for e-mail names. Note that Internet EMail Address is more commonly used, as it contains the e-mail address displayed in ConsoleOne and used with LDAP.
For help in understanding the attribute definition template, see Reading NDS Attribute Type Definitions.
An LDAP schema query requires extended terms (X_NDS) to return the NDS attribute constraints.
The information stored in this attribute is application specific. The syntax supports a type field and an address field. The mail application defines the type and the format of the address. NDS does not verify the information; it only stores the information.
For MHS applications, the e-mail address for a non-MHS user is stored in the EMail Address attribute. The e-mail address for an MHS user is stored in the Mailbox Location and Mailbox ID attributes.
EMail Address is used to specify a user’s mailbox that resides in a non-MHS E-mail system. For example, an NDS user can choose to have his or her e-mail delivered to a UNIX machine that supports the SMTP messaging protocol. This user’s SMTP address in the UNIX machine is placed in the EMail Address attribute. (In this case, the user’s Mailbox Location and Mailbox ID attributes are not used.)
EMail Address can also specify a user’s e-mail alias as known in a foreign messaging system. A non-MHS messaging system can use the alias to send mail to an MHS user. For example, an MHS user (whose mailbox is in an MHS messaging server) can have an X400 alias so that X400 users can use this alias to send mail to the MHS user.
A user can have more than one e-mail alias, one for each non-MHS system. The EMail Address attribute information is stored in an EMail_Address_T structure. The convention for storing non-MHS E-mail addresses and aliases in the structure is as follows:
Non-MHS E-mail Address. If the type field of the structure is set to zero, the data structure contains an E-mail address, in the following form:
non-MHS_Email_Protocol:non-MHS_Email_Address
The non_MHS_Email_Protocol is a 1-8 character string, and the non-MHS_Email_Address is a string for the actual address value.
Example: SMTP:JohnD@Novell.Com
Alias. If the type field of the structure is set to one, the data structure contains an e-mail alias, in the following form:
non-MHS_Email_Protocol:non-MHS_Email_Alias.
The non_MHS_Email_Protocol is a 1-8 character string, and the non-MHS_Email_Address is a string for the actual alias value.
Example: SMTP:JohnD@Novell.Com