E-Mail Aliases

Question

I'm unable to send e-mail to an added 'e-mail alias' I entered via amconsole's "User Alias List:" field. The help there says:
User Alias List. The field defines a list of aliases that may be applied to the user. In order to use any aliases configured in this attribute, the LDAP service has to be modified by adding the iplanet-am-user-alias-list attribute to the User Entry Search Attributes field
in the LDAP service.
I opened the directory server's console, but could not see where to add this attribute, except maybe at the organization/people/user-in-question level, I'd like this attribute to be available for all in the org. Where do I add it?
As I recall, in the past it was not necessary to add this attribute. It just worked when adding aliases in /amconsole's web interface?
I assume there are checks to ensure an alias doesn't conflict with another address or alias?

Answer 1

I do not see much in the error or access LDAP logs...
I've learned a few things about the interoperability of commadmin and the Delegated Administrator (DA). Following the 2005q1 Technical Note for setting up an evaluation.
I created a user with commadmin for calendaring and mail (but w/ no alias). Later in the DA, I could not successfully add an e-mail alias, got the 'save operation failed' error.
Users created in the DA can have aliases added via the DA and/or commadmin user modify.
It seems if commadmin is used to create the user, and the attribute is not specified then, it cannot be edited later in the DA. Because when I created a user with commadmin that had +mailalternateaddress, I could then use the DA to add more aliases.
Conversely, I couldn't seem to add calendaring with commadmin (or in the DA) to users created with the DA. So in the end, I used commadmin, with the +mailalternateaddress and -S mail,cal attributes and values to create my user.
To add an aliases to commadmin created users, I needed to delete the users and recreate them, here I used either commadmin or the DA, but I could
not recreate the users - in the DA's create-user wizard, at the final step I got the JavaScript alert box 'could not create user - unknown error' error.
The users were still there, albeit marked for deletion, I could see them in the Directory Server's console, under org, org, people - I deleted them. Several other folders with those usernames were also around, I deleted them too.
The commadmin user delete seems only to mark for deletion. Once I deleted them in the console, I could recreate the users in the DA (and with commadmin).
My initial user however, for some reason, I could not delete, even at the DS's console, logging in as cn=Directory Manager instead of admin though allowed me to delete this user.
Msuserpurge seemed to work, the verbose flag is nice, but csclean did not seem to work, it gave varying errors, one that looked like an LD_LIBRARY_PATH prob. some .so file, one that said 'could not open file to set permissions', and one that said 'must be run in virtual domain mode.'
However, these did not seem to affect the recreated user, who initially did not have much (or anything)
in their calendar.
I also tried a suggestion here using an Access Manager deluser.xml file that did not work, though it appeared promising, as it connected to the server. It was from 2004's JES.
It would be nice to have a more simplified procedure for deleting users who will at some point need to be recreated. I realize the current procedure is probably to recover from an accidental deletion.
I am wondering what happened to the deleted user's portal discussion entries, where do those live? Is it in the DS or is there a DB of some kind? Also, where is the message store? Where is the calendar data?