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Re: Empty IA5String
Leif Johansson writes:
>To: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
>> I can give you what might have become a real-world example at our site
>> if Directory Strings could be zero-length: A 'vacation message'
>> attribute which the mail system would check. If the attribute was
>> present, the mail system would send a vacation message in response to
>> incoming messages, with a standard initial text + the optional
>> user-supplied message.
>>
>> As it is, we ended up another boolean attribute which means 'there is an
>> active vacation message', and only use the vacation attribute if the
>> boolean is TRUE.
>
> I'd say the typical solution is that the attribute is an optional
> attribute of an objectClass indicating the function of a vacation
> message.
For a vacation message by itself, yes. Not when it's part of an
object class for mail handling in general. Spam and virus filtering,
forwarding, IMAP server, maildrop, etc.
> The filter is then objectClass=something rather than the
> presence-filter based on the vaction attribute.
--
Hallvard