[imp] Change in Preference Database

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org> wrote:

> Quoting Eric Pierce <epierce@ritchie.acomp.usf.edu>:
>
> > I've been trying out the IMP 2.3 code recently (runs great, BTW) and I
> > noticed that the preferences database has been changed so that the "UID"
> > field, which is only the username(i.e. epierce), has replaced the "user"
> > field, which is a full email address (i.e. epierce@usf.edu).  Is there a
> > reason for this change?
>
> This isn't new; it's been that way since the new preferences system was put
> into place. The intention is to have preferences based more on Horde users;
> those will have to be unique anyway.

...and I believe you said recently, in the development context, that
there's no reason a site couldn't choose to use the full email as their
unique Horde user name?  For example, that might be beneficial for servers
supporting multiple virtual domains where the bare username might not be
unique.

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