On Wed, 12 May 1999, David Wolfskill wrote:

> >Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:15:12 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: Bob K <mela...@yip.org>
> 
> >People on -current:  Just to recap, adduser (and rmuser) disallow .'s in
> >usernames on FreeBSD-stable; passwd(5) cites that some mailers have
> >problems with dots in usernames.  However, they are becoming more common,
> >and are a legal part of rfc821.  So what are people's thoughts on allowing
> >that in -current, and if there's no complaints, backporting it to -stable?  
> >It seems really really trivial...
> 
> Syntax for valid mailboxes need not correspond to (but should be a
> superset of, IMO) syntax for usernames.
> 
> What's the problem you're trying to solve?

I'm hoping to simplify things for my users so that they don't need to have
a different email address from their username if they have a dot in the
local-part.

mela...@yip.org - Mustard gas: The kids love it!



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