On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Robert B spewed into the ether:
> I have a need to run a server with virtual mailboxes that can have
> identical username portions of [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a variety of
> domains.
>
> My initial solution was to simply have the users login
> as [EMAIL PROTECTED] after removing some checks in the source
> code, I now see that adding users is done with a period to
> differentiate between folders.
>
> What's a good way to overcome this virtual mailbox with identical
> username issues to keep the login names consistent for the end user
> (i.e. keep support calls down).
Use the hiersep version. You can create mailboxes of the type
[EMAIL PROTECTED], but I had trouble getting postfix to write to these
mailboxes via LMTP (direct LMTP instead of deliver).
My soultion has been to use a user.dom.ain mailbox, with imapd and
pop3d being able to rewrite an '@' in the login name to a '.'
This solves quite a few problems.
The hiersep release is available from
ftp://ftp.oceana.com/pub/cyrus-imapd-2.0.15-HIERSEP-r2.tar.gz
In imapd.conf add
unixhierarchysep: yes
This changes separators from '.' to '/'
Devdas Bhagat
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How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning,
and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?
-- A. Cooper
