[imp] user name change question

[Patrick Timmons]

"Brent J. Nordquist" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, John McCoy, Jr <jmccoy@mills.edu> wrote:
> 
> > By allowing users to change their full name and email address it makes
> > it very easy to fake where an email is coming from, at least
> > internally.
> 
> Note the X-Originating-IP: header which will have the IP address of the
> browser from which the message came.  Also, if you're using syslog logging
> you can marry up who logged in (IMAP user/password) with what they sent.
> 
> > Are there any plans to change this so I can let a user specify their
> > hotmail account or something as the reply address but not allow them
> > to mask them selves as well.
> 
> I think Reply-To is supported in 2.3, which would do what you want.
> 
> > Also can I pre-populate the mysql database with their full names,
> > sense I have to lock out their ability to do so?
> 
> Sure.  I don't know if IMP will use a full name if the ability to change
> the full name (specify it as a preference) is turned off, however; you'd
> have to test that.
> 

We use our ldap directory to initialize the fullname and the replyto fields when
the user logs in. IMP uses it even if the option to change the fullname if
turned off. I posted my code and changes in October.

> > Any plans for a global address book?
> 
> Do you mean global, shared among all your users?  This could take many
> forms.  Do you want all users to be able to add/edit/delete to a shared
> address book?  (Shudder.)  If you only want all users to be able to choose
> entries in a shared address book, I would use LDAP for that.
> 
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