On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:20:19PM -0000, pop corn wrote:
> 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/
That's confusing. Keep uid the same as in the mailmessagestore.
> (depending on whether mailMessageStore needs a trailing slash, per my
> original question - which I still need an answer to).
Of course it needs if you deliver to Maildirs. This is a standard qmail FAQ.
> 1) Eric has used it successfully for a year
oh great, I'm using domain.com-user for years now.
> 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.
This is possible with _any_ uid style.
> 3) ., #, %, reminds me too much of the difficult UUCP, sendmail days
ACK
> 4) My users are more likely to remember their email address to specify as a
> login, than one of the variations above.
They remeber the swapped domain.com-user quite fast.
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