John,
The problem, in your case, is the username, not the host/domain name.
IMail's limit is 30 characters and yours is 31 (if I counted correctly). If
the name is too long, not sure what IMail might do, and that could even be
somewhat version dependant. I have created a user of the same name in my
domain, and using POP3, was able to login multiple times without any
password changes.
I then used that account via Web Messaging (not sure what you are referring
to as WMC) and again, I was succesful in logging in/out several times.
Finally I created a domain of that name as a virtual host, no IP and created
the same named user and again all was well in both Web MSG and POP3.
That leaves only one thing left, the database you are using (I used IMail's
internal in above testing!). I did see a user with Oracle DB and an old dll
(8 fields instead of required 9) and she had a similiar problem (password
changing). Did you have a pre V5.04 of IMail? That would have the old dll
and both the dll and the DB table should be updated to work with newer
versions of IMail. Are you using some other modified version of the
odbcuser.dll? If so, try with the standard dll and see if that works.
Daniel Donnelly
Ipswitch Technical Support
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----- Original Message -----
From: "LISTS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 11:57 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Domain Name Length
> I know this. We configured a domain called: nationalpolygraphconsultants.
We
> added it using adddomains.exe
> Everything went through fine.
>
> But in The Web Messaging Center (WMC) it was weird. The password would not
> stay valid. I could go in the imail admin and set the password for the
user
> nationalpolygraphconsultantscom, then, I could go into the WMC and login
in
> using [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The first time I could get in. But, the second time it would not allow
> access. Again, I could go repeat the process of setting the user's
password
> in imail admin and login to the WMC. But after that I was not allowed
> access. So, the solution was to delete that user and create a shorter one.
>
> John Cesta
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian McCarty
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 10:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Domain Name Length
>
>
> I have a customer who wants a domain name of 64 characters in length.
> Please don't ask why. Does anybody know the max length that iMail can
> handle? Also, are you aware of any clients that may have a problem with
this
> length?
>
> Brian
>
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