Hallo Roland,

would be nice to have your and the other implementation posted.

Mfg

Malte Woelky

Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 12:49:45 AM, you wrote:

RC> I implemented something similar myself, but had the domain name read
RC> from an environment variable. That way you can run different default
RC> domains on different server IP addresses without having multiple qmail
RC> installs.

RC> Roland

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gianluca Marcari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, 4 June 2003 5:20 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [good?] Default domain for pop logins
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I just migrated a sendmail system to qmail-ldap with virtual 
>> domains. Due to the virtual domain nature of the new 
>> structure, my old users would be required to change their POP 
>> usernames in their mailers from "username" to 
>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" but, in order to avoid thousands of support 
>> calls, I would rather allow them to use the old parameters 
>> (of course this is only for the old, pre-qmail, domain. All 
>> new domains would obviously require the user to specify the 
>> domain as well).
>> 
>> After googling around a bit, I realized that no such thing 
>> exists (or my googling skills are really bad) and decided to 
>> implement it myself.
>> 
>> Since all of my "real" (production) qmail installs have been 
>> migrations, I think such a feature could indeed prove useful 
>> for many situations like mine. So I'm here, asking to the 
>> community: Do you think it's interesting, or was it left out 
>> on purpose because it's contrary to something in the Qmail philosophy?
>> 
>> If it's interesting I can clean it up a bit and send a patch 
>> (it's a bit ugly at the moment, and not even parametric. 
>> Ideally it should read the "me" file from the qmail/control 
>> directory).
>> 
>> Ciao,
>> 
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>> 



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