There is a better solution. Use sendmail or use /etc/passwd and qmail. I
can justify using an IP address per domain because I actually host the
websites and mail of the domains that I take care of. That way, I can keep
everything with 1 IP address and it works great. I really do not at all
like using aliases in the fashion that you are speaking of because then
you've got hundreds of domains trying to use a limited resource. I hate
having someone say "I want [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and having to tell them "set
your mail client to check the pop3 account of sales64". It's terrible. If
you compile it in to check based on the reverse of the IP that the request
comes in on, you can avoid the sales%domain.com issue you're complaining
about. And I've yet to hear a mail client that doesn't like the %
delimiter. @ is a big problem though.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Chesney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 2:09 PM
To: vpopmail; qmailadmin
Subject: RE: feature request
a small service provider with more mail hosts than ip addresses would be
able to achieve an effect similar to the ip aliasing option. or suppose a
service provider doesn't want to allocate numerous ip's just for the sake of
mail. the requirement of a delimiter whether it be / or % or @, etc creates
too many problems and support issues. so many common mail clients choke on
delimiters, that there must be a better solution.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Beuchler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 9:15 AM
To: vpopmail; qmailadmin
Subject: Re: feature request
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:05:50AM -0700, Mark Chesney wrote:
> currently, in order to avoid the %domain pop user naming scheme, the only
> choice is ip aliasing, which requires an ip for each and every domain.
> sometimes this is unrealistic or unachievable. why not create a system
where
> pop usernames can be unique, but not so clunky. there are many ways to do
> this, but it should be left up to the administrator. i can think of
several
> examples:
What would be the advantage? Aside from aesthetics...
Ben
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