On 5/18/22 10:48, dancab@caltech.edu wrote:
Mark,
We have a question related to this thread. We use LDAP for authentication. It seems that the name attributes can only be edited via the LDAP synchronization when a user logs in for the first time and thus creates their user account.
But what about list members that are not in LDAP? What happens behind the scenes when a member is added to a list?
The user's display name is set when the user record is initially created. Assuming someone who is initially unknown, this can happen when the unknown user signs up for a web account, when the unknown user subscribes to a list via the web UI or when the unknown user is mass subscribed to a list.
Manually subscribing members has different results with our configuration.
I've seen the manually entered name show up as "None" <foobar@caltech.edu>.
There was a pre-existing user with that address and no display name.
I've seen the entry be accepted as is, eg. "John Doe" <jdoe@example.com>
I've seen the name entry be ignored but the email accepted eg. "Foo Bar" <foobar@caltech.edu> is subscribed but the member list only shows <foobar@caltech.edu>
The display name has nothing to do with message acceptance. That is based only on the address.
In Postorius >=1.3.6 there is a Users selection at the top of most
pages if you are logged in as a superuser. This allows management of
users including their display name.
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