I am not sure that’s the case. I have an older version of qmail, on centos 5 
and follow most of the Bill’s toaster, a few personal changes but my user was 
still be able to use @,and I do use spamdyke there too.

Remo

> On Sep 11, 2018, at 08:58, Andrew Swartz <awswa...@acsalaska.net> wrote:
> 
> Consider the possibility that this could be a spamdyke option/issue. I
> mention this because with my centos5 toaster I had to manually install
> spamdyke but it installed automatically with my recent centos7 toaster.
> Also, the spamdyke version has upgraded from 4.x to 5.x which was a
> fairly significant change.
> 
> You could test this easily by commenting out the spamdyke line in
> /var/qmail/supervise/smtpd and then restarting qmail.  If that solves
> the problem, then spamdyke is the culprit and you should then scour the
> spamdyke docs for the appropriate setting to change.
> 
> -Andy
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/11/2018 6:51 AM, Jeff Koch wrote:
>> Hi Eric:
>> 
>> This was an old Bill's Toaster and for reasons I can't remember (going
>> back to 1999) user's couldn't put '@' asteriks in their usernames so we
>> had them use percent signs which Bill's toaster accepted.
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
>> On 9/11/2018 10:23 AM, Eric Broch wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>> 
>>> How old was the toaster? What metamorphosis of qmail were you running.
>>> 
>>> In all the maintenance I've done nothing has been modified to the
>>> qmail packages concerning the % character.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 9/11/2018 7:54 AM, Jeff Koch wrote:
>>>> Hi:
>>>> 
>>>> We just upgraded a mailserver to the new qmail toaster and ran into a
>>>> problem. The old mailserver allowed usernames with percent signs such
>>>> as sam%domain.com. The new toaster rejects that form of username. Is
>>>> there any quick fix that would allow the percent sign to be used?
>>>> Otherwise we have hundreds of customers that won't be able to connect
>>>> to their email accounts.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, Jeff
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Eric Broch
>>> White Horse Technical Consulting (WHTC)
>> 
> 

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