I'm not sure what the implications of this are but it does work. What if you
added a small fake alias domain and login using that: eg if the domain is
"mycompany.com" then make an alias domain "myc" so you would login with
"user@myc"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Divyank Turakhia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ken Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "vpopmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:46 AM
Subject: RE: 1 character username
> i figured tht ... but thts for giving him a 1 letter email address ... i
> need to give him a 1 letter user which can be authenticated using vchkpw
...
> cause its his username which needs to be limited to 20 chars ...
>
> ne other ideas tht you can think of???
>
> Div
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:04 PM
> > To: Divyank Turakhia
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: 1 character username
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 07:23, Divyank Turakhia wrote:
> > > How do i add a username with 1 character only. The problem is one of
my
> > > clients is using some outdated local mail server which allows
> > usernames to
> > > be only 20 characters. His domain name is 18 characters. The @
> > sign takes 1
> > > character. that leaves only one chartered for his username.
> > When i try to
> > > add a letter username it gives me an error stating "illegal username".
> > >
> > > Is there any way i can add a one character username??? some thing like
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > Divyank
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Unfortunately, no. All the single characters are reserved
> > for directory hashing.
> >
> > What you could do is give him a new email address with
> > two or more characters, then create an alias that points
> > his single character address to his new address.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > valias -i "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > the valias command does the same thing as
> > echo "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/.qmail-a
> >
> > Ken Jones
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
