On Fri, 17 May 2002, Glenn Hocking wrote: > Sorry but I'm using standard sendmail and qpopper. The stickhost and > virtusertable 'features' have been around for a while. I've been using > this setup since 1996 with great success.
We misunderstand each other. I thought it was desired to have the UNIX (and POP3) username be username@domain. Can you explain your working setup? I have also used sendmail's virtusertable workaround for many years. I am not sure how you could use full user@domain as the virtusertable alias (right hand side) and sendmail would know that it was really a local getpwent username (and not relay to @domain). I have only read about stickyhost -- does it solve that problem? I am also confused how it can reliably work with qpopper since several POP3 clients automatically get rid of the at-sign and domain. (I don't think standard qpopper can be configured to use an alternative character and then replace it with an at-sign before doing a getpwnam(3).) As for user name length, I did several tests the past few years with Debian Linux (and some BSDs) with long user names. I have had usernames with over hundred characters (with Debian Linux) that I was successfully able to use for email (exim MTA and vm-pop3d,gnu-pop3d and others), logins (login, ssh), ftp and more. (Some of my notes about this are probably available in this list's archives; I need to find and publish on a webpage.) Jeremy C. Reed echo '9,J8HD,fDGG8B@?:536FC5=8@I;C5?@H5B0D@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\ sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
