I am writing a fallback email plugin that sends an email to the destination user if an email address is specified for them. I know it doesn’t really make sense, but that’s what the users at my company want. Currently I am doing this:
to_username = to_jid.getNode();
user_manager.getUser(to_username);
to_email_addr = to_user_obj.getEmail();
However, this will not work in a federated environment witn non-local JIDs. Is there an api call to turn a JID into a vCard?
Hi
I don’t know about the VCARD, but why do you want to use that one for obtaining the user mail? We are using the mail from the user properties. A code sample how to obtain the mail from there is in the user import/export plugin.
The VCARD is something a user can change easily to be non valid. If the mail in the user property is wrong, you can at least blame the Openfire admin (that’s me in my company 
). We have written a user registration, that validated the user mail during user creation and (!) we have recreated any user that has an invalid e-mail adress and forced them to a standard JID. E.g.The user with the mail john.doe@mycompany.com has the JID john.doe@jabber.internal.mycompany.com.This has proven to be a very helpful decision, as it allows me to revalidate the user base by mapping them to the global mail directory.
Walter
That works well in a non federated case, where all communication occurs
through a single server, but I’m operating in a federated case where the
vCard is most likely stored on a remote server. That’s why I’m asking if
there is a federated implementation of vcard, as I think the user object is
tied to the local server. Correct me if I’m wrong