Curtis, fully qualified usernames are not an option for David atm.
Curtis Maurand wrote: > > First there isn't a decent front end for managing this. No offense to > the person that actually wrote the one thats on the website, but that > one is cumbersome and it doesn't work very well. I'm in the process > (albeit slowly) of writing one. I'm combining this front end with one > for PowerDNS. This isn't as difficult as you're all making it out to > be. Its really very simple. Make the person's user name their email > address. Then the command to add them is: > > dbmail-users -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] -p <password type> -w <password> \ > -g <client_idnr> -s [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > dbmail-users -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] -p <password type> -w <password> \ > -g <client_idnr> -s [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It works perfectly, I've been doing it this way for months. My clients > log in with their email address and password. My only complaint is lack > of per user filtering, but I think that is a matter of adding a table to > the database for spamassassin settings and linking it to the users > table. Amavisd-new has provisions for writing a custom query to get the > information from a preferences table. > > Curtis Maurand > Maine Line Systems > Biddeford, ME > > > Paul J Stevens wrote: > >>On a different note: I've ported Jesse Norell's usermap patch for >>dbmail-1.2 to dbmail-trunk. >> >>This will allow dbmail managers to assign different usernames to users >>than the one in the dbmail_users table. >> >>It won't solve the issue at hand, though. For that the usermap framework >>would need to be extended to take into account additional information >>such as the IP address of the client and/or the server, portnumbers, etc... >> >> >> >>Blake Mitchell wrote: >> >> >>>It's a simple matter of having enough information to figure out who a >>>person is. If you have identical user names for different domains, and >>>they are different people, then you need some other piece of identifying >>>information to figure out the domain. Be it a separate port or IP, or a >>>domain in the login, there has to be something to tell these people apart. >>> >>>DBMail uses a unique login, which is definitely a simpler way to deal >>>with things. So the only way to get what you want is to have a separate >>>install of dbmail for each of your domains. Not optimal in my opinion. >>>If there is no way to convince your users they need to use their full >>>email address as a login, you may just be better off sticking with what >>>you have now. >>> >>>Niblett, David A wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>I understand the client_idnr field, but I don't understand >>>>how IMAP will determine when user 'xyz' from domain1 logs in >>>>and user 'xyz' from domain2 logs in. Right now I run a separate >>>>IP per domain, and unless I force all my users to connect with >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (which most likely won't happen) then I >>>>may be stuck here. >>>> >>>>-- >>>>David A. Niblett | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>Network Administrator | Phone: (352) 334-3400 >>>>Gainesville Regional Utilities | Web: http://www.gru.net/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 23, >>>>2005 1:36 PM >>>>To: DBMail mailinglist >>>>Subject: Re: [Dbmail] Question about Virtual Domains >>>> >>>> >>>>Yes, it does work. I do it now. dbmail has a field for client id. >>>> >>>>each user has an alias, but all of my users have a user name of their >>>>email address and an alias that is also their email address, you can >>>>set up multiple email addresses for each customer. >>>>I'm using postfix/dbmail/amavisd-new/spamassassin/clamav The same >>>>things that the barracuda networks gizmo uses (they don't use dbmail). >>>> >>>>Curtis >>>> >>>> >>>>Niblett, David A wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>I really hope that I'm missing something here. How does DBMail deal >>>>>with virtual domains? >>>>> >>>>>User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> >>>>>Right now, unfortunately, most all my users would log in >>>>>as 'xyz' with POP server of 'mail.domain1.com'. >>>>> >>>>>Currently I have to run 3 IP addresses on a very old NTMail server in >>>>>order to deal with virtual domains. Can I do the same in DBMail, or >>>>>how do I set it up to distinguish between the two users? >>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>David A. 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