On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:35:03PM -0000, Dean Browett wrote:
> How do you explain these then ?
>
> @400000003aa4f3a023278cc4 starting delivery 2957873: msg 591883 to local
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> @400000003aa4f3a02327ea84 status: local 1/10 remote 20/20
> @400000003aa4f3a02b24c2fc delivery 2957873: failure:
> Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
I've been a little thrown off by your posing this question as a problem with
POP3. That's a red herring; it has nothing to do with POP3.
This is from the qmail-getpw man page:
qmail-getpw considers an account in /etc/passwd to be a
user if (1) the account has a nonzero uid, (2) the
account's home directory exists (and is visible to qmail-
getpw), and (3) the account owns its home directory.
qmail-getpw ignores account names containing uppercase
letters. qmail-getpw also assumes that all account names
are shorter than 32 characters.
qmail-getpw assumes that the account name is shorter than 32 characters. This
doesn't impose a limit on the local part of an address, though. You can use
either the dot-qmail or mail-users mechanism to have addresses of unlimited
length, and deliver mail to accounts with names shorter than 32 characters.
Chris
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