Texas A&M University - Infrastructure Services

Primary/Published Email Address (mail)

Definition: Preferred address for the 'To' field of email sent to the account owner.

This is not the final delivery address.
Attribute Name: 'mail' 'rfc822Mailbox'
OID: 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.3
URN: urn:oid:0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.3
Object Class: inetOrgPerson
Required: no
Multiple Values: Multi-valued
Format: IA5 String {256}
Values must conform with the syntax of an Internet e-mail address, which is a string of the form localpart@domainname. The part before the @ sign is the local part of the address, often the username of the recipient, and the part after the @ sign is a domain name.
Controlled Vocabulary: not applicable
Source: If NetID has not been activated, this attribute is not present, i.e. contains no value.
If NetID has been activated, the attribute value is NetID@tamu.edu.
Indexing: Presence (pres): Improves searches for entries that contain the indexed attribute.
Equality (eq): Improves searches for entries that contain an attribute that is set to a specific value.
Substring (sub): Improves searches for entries that contain a specified substring.
Search Syntax: EQUALITY caseIgnoreIA5Match SUBSTR caseIgnoreIA5SubstringsMatch
Access: If tamuEduSuppress is set to administrative, name, or email, account owner has read access, and everyone else has search access.
Otherwise, account owner, authenticated users, and nonauthenticated (anonymous) users have read access.
Usage: white pages
Example(s): joe-college@tamu.edu