Hello!

>
>I'm running Cyrus IMAP 2.1.13 on top of Sendmail.
>Mail is being delivered from Sendmail into Cyrus using an LMTP unix socket.
>
>My users have email addresses like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>But I use LDAP authentification with their common name "firstname lastname"
>I haven't problems authenticate them, I've problems sending messages to
>their address [EMAIL PROTECTED] because incoming messages can't
>be delivered to the mailboxes.
>I always receive a returned mail telling me "Mailbox unknown. Either there
>is no mailbox associated with this name or you do not have authorization to
>see it."
>
>I've tryed to create with cyradm both mailboxes "user/firstname.lastname"
>and "user/firstname lastname" but anyone works.

You can create mailboxes with usernames without spaces for simplicity.

>
>Too, I created a virtual transport map in Sendmail to map
>"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and creating after
>the mailbox "user/shortname"
>Howerver, incoming messages can't be delivered to the mailboxes either for
>the same reason.
>
>What I must do if I need obligatorily the addresses like
>"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and the usernames like "firstname lastname"?
>How I can relate the mailbox with the email address and the username?

Use aliases in sendmail and in case of LDAP put aliases into LDAP server.

Regards,
Konstantin.

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