Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:18:41 +0100
From:  Jason Humphrey <Jasonh (at mark) businessws.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:07121] Re: feature request/question about email (name clash btw diff domains)
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <451169E1.8080009 (at mark) businessws.com>
In-Reply-To:  <a76ce5979bd6d2a9489322615e3db1bb (at mark) zill.net>
References:  <a76ce5979bd6d2a9489322615e3db1bb (at mark) zill.net>
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Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> One problem that I have is that two different domains, having two users 
> with the same name, will suffer a name clash.
> 
> E.g.
> 
> patrick (at mark) domain1.com
> patrick (at mark) domain2.com
> 
> cannot both have a username of "patrick" .
> 
> Any workarounds for it, or a future plan to change this behavior?
> 
> I understand that this behavior is deeply embedded in the system so do 
> not expect it to change overnight.
> 
> --Patrick
> 

Add patrick1 to one domain and patrick2 to another domain and then add 
patrick in both their email aliases.

We tend to prefix our user names with the company initials, e.g. 
bluequartz.org users would be bqtheirname and then add their name to the 
email alias field.

-- 
Kind regards,
Jason Humphrey
BWS
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