On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 05:28:38PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 12:57:38AM +0000, Paul Gregg wrote:
> > Essentially I'm thinking of enabling the user to login via POP3 as
> > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with their normal password. (I've written the
> > checkpasswd so it's easy to authenticate ok).
> 
> Slightly off topic:
> I know of (at least) one eMail client which assumes
>     user@host
> is
>     connect(host, pop3)
>     USER user
> 
> So you should probably also be prepared to handle
>     user%domain@host
> which should result in
>     connect(host, pop3)
>     USER user%domain

The checkpassword replacement I wrote (with which you can assign domains to
users, allowing them to specify infinite POP3 accounts in a file in their
homedir, but with separate Maildirs) accepts user@host, user%host and
user_host.

You can't have it though...

Greetz, Peter
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