Re: Dot in email adress

[James Raftery]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:28:53AM -0200, Alan R. wrote:
> Today, i tried to create an account with the file ".qmail-ar.rubin", but
> when someone sends
> email to this account, it returns with the below message. The
[snip]
> Someone knows why is these happening ? I can´t create email accounts with
> dots ?

qmail replaces dots with colons before delivery. Rename the file as
.qmail-ar:rubin and it should work as expected.
(Is this in the man pages? I couldn't find it during a quick search)


james
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