Remove Account names from GAL

[g8se]

Is it possible to not show account names in the internal GAL, and only show aliases?
In my deployment of zimbra I am using account names that will authenticate against an external LDAP server. However those account names are not what I want users to consider the canonical email address for a person. Each account gets setup with an alias. Eg:

account name: johns@example.com
first alias: john.smith@example.com

I don't want johns@example.com to show up in the GAL. Is this possible?

[jholder]

There should be a "Hide from GAL" option in the user's profile in the admin ui. Check it for all your users, and that should do it. . . .I think

[mcode151]

I need the exact reverse (hide the aliases and keep the main account name)

outside machine(address@company.com)
-perdition(checks user-and if using the 'new' zimbra solution applies address@something.company.com)
-inside machine has the address@company.com as the account name (so when they send mail the process doesn't have to happen in reverse) an alias is made for that user address@something.company.com and i can't hide THIS in the gal.

searching for the 'address' returns both emails

so really a checkbox is needed to hide the aliases in gal

[Klug]

There are several bug reports (some are fixed now) about the aliases being shown (in the webui or outlook).
Which version of Zimbra are you using ?

[mcode151]

Bug 14919 - hide aliases in GAL on a per-alias basis

[g8se]

Originally Posted by jholder

There should be a "Hide from GAL" option in the user's profile in the admin ui. Check it for all your users, and that should do it. . . .I think

I'm running 4.5.4. The 'Hide from GAL' option hides all addresses associated with the account. Not just the aliases, or just the account name.

[jummo]

I don't want to show up the zimbraMailDeliveryAddress (loginname) in GAL, only the zimbraMailCanonicalAddress should be shown. To achieve this I changed the mapping from accounts to address book with zimbraGalLdapAttr (see GAL Attribute Mapping - Zimbra :: Wiki).

zmprov mcf -zimbraGalLdapAttrMap zimbraMailDeliveryAddress,zimbraMailAlias,mail=email,email2,email3,email4,email5,email6,email7,email8,email9,email10,email11,email12,email13,email14,email15,email16
zmprov mcf +zimbraGalLdapAttrMap zimbraMailCanonicalAddress=email

Now, only the zimbraMailCanonicalAdress is shown in the GAL. I think, it's also possible to shown only the alias addresses with zimbraMailAlias=email,email2,email3,....