Re: Email addresses containg . ; eg .@domain.net

[thomas . erskine-dated-41708fb418e2f4a0]

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Chris Naden wrote:

> I've searched the archives and i couldn't locate
> anything dealing with this.

FAQ 4.6, also man dot-qmail:
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     WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in  ext
     with  colons  before  checking .qmail-ext.  For convenience,
     qmail-local converts any uppercase letters in ext to  lower-
     case.
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<rant>
I've heard many people complain about the lack of documentation that comes
with qmail; I'd like to put in a contrary opinion.  I've never seen so
completely documented a system.  Everything is there.  The only gotcha is
that, apart from the FAQ, nothing is repeated.  The moral of the story is:
read through *all* the qmail docs quickly once, or at least read the FAQ.
</rant>

> I'm trying to set up an email address @ a virtual 
> domain using qmail (current release). You guys 
> were very helpful to me in getting it set up at all
> and everything has worked smoothly so far. Now I wanted
> to set up an address with a . in it; that is for example
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> qmail file;
> /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-dom-foo.bar
> 
> containing 
> 
> &foobar, then &foobar@localhost then &[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> It repliled 'no mailbox here' with all of
> the above variations.
> 
> I then removed .bar from the filename; as with
> 
> /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-dom-foo
> 
> containing &[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> the user does exist, everything else is right. The second
> config worked. 
> 
> Can anyone tell me why I can't have <>.<> email
> names and what I should do about it?
> 
> ~cHris
> 
> 

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