Peter, Thank you very much for your feedback. I really appreciate it.
Are there any particular tests that you think I should run, just to make sure that I'm not likely to run into corrupted emails three or four months down the road, well after I've implemented OI? I figured I'd test it with sending, replying to, etc. emails of various different scenarios, just to be on the safe side. But if you think I should test anything in particular, I'd appreciate your thoughts. Thank you again. Peter, hieromonk ---- Dormition Skete Monastery Website: http://www.DormitionSkete.org Convent Website: http://www.HolyApostlesConvent.org ---- On Dec 10, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Nicholas Metsovon <nmets...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> I've been building an OpenIndiana server to replace our existing Linux web >> server. I've always - since the 70's - wanted to run a real Unix server. I >> have the server almost built, and everything so far is working great. Glory >> be to our holy God! However last night, when I was configuring the email, I >> went to add another user using the GUI tool, since I'm not that familiar >> with all of the Solaris command line tools, in order to test the email >> further. >> >> It was then that I discovered that it would only let me add a user with no >> more than eight characters. In searching the net, I found a post where it >> said that if I added the user via the command line, it would complain about >> it being more than eight characters, but would go ahead and add it anyway. >> >> I'm using uw-imap. I know that if I was to use Cyrus imap, which doesn't >> require a system user account for email recipients, none of this would >> matter; but I don't like Cyrus imap. And I like uw-imap a lot. >> >> The users that have names longer than eight characters would only ever log >> into the system to check their mail via either SquirrelMail, or the mail >> client on their workstations. It's not like they'd ever actually log into >> the system itself. >> >> So, my big question is, am I likely to run into problems if I use the >> command line tool to add user names longer than eight characters? Does >> anyone out there have any experience with this? > > I've used usernames with well over 8 characters for years, without > any serious issues. At least with usernames up to 12-14 characters > > You'll run into lots of cosmetic problems (columns in ls and ps > output won't line up prettily, that sort of thing). More serious is > occasional truncation (including utilities like ps truncating > usernames as input). One of the more annoying aspects of this > is the fact that different tools start to exhibit problems at different > lengths. However, given your use case, most of these issues are > just irrelevant. > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
