Haim Dimermanas writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to do email hosting for a large number of domains. My solution
> consists in Postfix for the MTA, Cyrus for the LDA and IMP for the MUA.
> Emails have to be accessible by POP as well.
>
> After some research, I came to the conclusion that each individual needed
> to have an account under Cyrus as a local user. Let me explain. Let's say I
> host email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] The string "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is not a
> valid Cyrus username (mailbox in fact but you see my point). A translation
> needs to takes place.
>
> I decided to replace the '@' by '~' and the '.' by '-'. This is where I
> want some input. In my case, [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes the user
> john~example-com
>
> So in postfix virtual table I have
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] john~example-com
>
> This way, all mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] is accepted and redirected to the
> local (cyrus) user john~example-com.
>
> I want to know how you guys do it. Is doing a simple s/\@/~/ and s/\./-/ a
> good scalable way to work? I wonder.
>
> Now my next question is: if you can't have [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the
> username, how do you manage to get the user to log on using his email
> address instead of an ugly john~example-com?
>
> Haim.
>
>
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If you have many many domains use LDAP for authentication and account
info.
If not just asign a unique username to each mail a use the classic
/etc/passw
HTH
Cheers.
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