On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 03:14:10PM -0800, Randy Harmon wrote:
> I've done everything that's documented for allowing authentication
> to use server foobar.com, username fred. I see a number of others
> have encountered the same problem as I: it doesn't work. I see no
> solutions in the mailing list archive. How frustrating. Maybe
> with this thread, a resolution can make it into the archives.
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> When I start using the new version, the authentication doesn't work
> unless I use user%domain.com. While this is fine for some of my
> users, others are already well-established with IP-based email
> domains and I don't wish to make them all change their usernames.
There is no way what you are describing CAN be done without IP-based
domains. If you read the POP RFCs (1725 is the main one) you will see
that the domain name is not part of the transaction. Hence, you need to
specify the exact user some other way. This means one of three options:
1) Use a different IP address for each domain and a POP client that
understands this.
2) Create user names that are unique across ALL domains.
3) Incorporate the domain name into the login. This is really just
a more logical version of #2.
Ben
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