Theoretically, is it not possible to have the user login as any one of the
following:
<user>@<domain>
<user>.<domain>
<user>#<domain>
<user>%<domain>
<domain>-<user>
and have the mailMessageStore always set up as:
/home/qmail/maildirs/<domain>-<user>/Maildir
or
/home/qmail/maildirs/<domain>-<user>/Maildir/
(depending on whether mailMessageStore needs a trailing slash, per my
original question - which I still need an answer to).
You would still have the benefit of a much nicer ls -las, regardless of the
user login style.
I'm still leaning towards <user>@<domain> simply because of these reasons,
in no particular order:
1) Eric has used it successfully for a year
2) I'm building a SquirrelMail webmail interface for my users. I don't
anticipate a lot of MUA variety from my users. If they report a problem with
an MUA, I can always ask them to use the webmail as a workaround.
3) ., #, %, reminds me too much of the difficult UUCP, sendmail days
4) My users are more likely to remember their email address to specify as a
login, than one of the variations above.
>From: Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: mailMessageStore "Is a directory" error
>Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:52:45 +0200
>
>On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:44:51PM +0200, Bjoern Metzdorf wrote:
> > > You might consider using the same technique Freeserve in the UK uses:
> > > <user>.<domain> (a dot replaces the at).
> >
> > which could be a problem:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] = name.lastname.domain.com
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] = name.lastname.domain.com
> >
> > What about "#" (user#domain.com) ?
>
>% is more common. I don't feel good seeing @,% and so on in directory
>names,
>though. My preferred method is still domain.com-user, which also is a very
>nice scheme when looking at ls -la output...
>
>--
>* Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de *
>* Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany *
>Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
>(Dennis Ritchie)
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