On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 02:33:32PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:36:42PM +0100, Bart Blanquart wrote:
> > Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> >
> > > | > Is it true that the only way to deliver messages to usernames that
> > > | > contain dashes is to recompile qmail telling it to use a different
> > > | > escape character than -
> > > |
> > > | unless you're using the users/assign method for qmail to look up
> > > | users, which you probably should.
> > >
> > > Have you tested this? I haven't, but my reading of the code says
> > > qmail-getpw will deal with usernames with dashes in them just fine.
> > > (See my earlier message on this topic.)
> >
> >
> > It is possible to have users with dashes in their names. I've got a bunch of
>those, and all works well (no user-spoofing like the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" vs.
>"[EMAIL PROTECTED] with .qmail-something" mentioned before seems to be possible)
>
> I did not say spoofing. The problem is that if both
> eric-shogun
> eric
> exists on the system, eric might try to set up a mailinglist in
> ~eric/.qmail-shogun
> but whenever he sends a message to the list, the message would end up in
> ~eric-shogun/Mailbox.
I agree that that is a problem. But I don't see any easy solutions, apart from
prohibiting dashes in usernames. Do you?
Greetz, Peter.
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.| Peter van Dijk | <mo|VERWEG> stoned worden of coden
.| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | <mo|VERWEG> dat is de levensvraag
| <mo|VERWEG> coden of stoned worden
| <mo|VERWEG> stonend worden En coden
| <mo|VERWEG> hmm
| <mo|VERWEG> dan maar stoned worden en slashdot lezen:)
