Basically, + is a reserved thing in cyrus, used to separate user from
folder (user+folder@domain, normally). Your allan@freeview+com will
confuse the hell out of cyrus, and it will probably be parsed as user
allan@freeview folder com, and its not what you want.
I'm using a similar trick, only using _ as separator. No problems.
-alex
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Allan Rafuse wrote:
>
> A few questions here. We have been running 1.6.24 in a hacked for so that we can
>have virtual
> users with username as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our hacked form went through the input
>and
> converted any '.'s in the username to '+'. So in imap from:
> 1 LOGIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] pass
>
> would be translated to allan@freeview+com.
>
> The allan@freeview+com showed up in everything cyrus did. I also had a TCL front end
> to the cyradm TCL program to do the conversion for me, so the only place you'd see a
>+com
> would be in cyrus.
>
> Anyways :), I'm trying to upgrade to 2.0.11. I am able to login fine and list
>mailboxes, except I've
> noticed a few new things with the LMTP. Here are the questions.
>
> 1. Why does LMTP tack on the '+' and then nuke from that to EOL in the verify_user
>function ?
> What significance does the '+' have in the LMTP? If it's needed,
> I'll need to use another character for the '+com' :)
>
> lmtpd.c verify_user() :
> if (strlen(user) > sizeof(buf)-10) {
> r = IMAP_MAILBOX_NONEXISTENT;
> } else {
> strcpy(buf, "user.");
> strcat(buf, user);
> plus = strchr(buf, '+');
> if (plus) *plus = '\0';
> r = mboxlist_lookup(buf, NULL, NULL, NULL);
>
> 2. Also, in the LMTP code, the domain is always stripped off the email address and
>it says "Getting Domain"
> in comments around code. What does the domain portion have to do with LMTP.
>
> Hopefully I can still make Cyrus work how I want it too :). Any warnings? Most
>users use POP and we have
> a couple IMAP accounts.
>
> TIA,
> -Allan
>
>
> <- Allan Rafuse ->
> Systems Administrator
> Freeview Publishing Inc.
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> web: http://www.freeview.com
>
>
>
