From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 1 11:38:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from neptune.kohtz.com (neptune.kohtz.com [204.62.193.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0CB15394 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:38:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@kohtz.com) Received: from christy.kohtz.com (christy.kohtz.com [204.62.193.181]) by neptune.kohtz.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA13254 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:41:27 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:41:27 -0700 (MST) From: Andy Kohtz To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: usernames longer than 8 characters Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello fellow FreeBSD junkies, The new company I have started to work for wants me to convert their existing internet e-mail system to a UNIX (FreeBSD was my choice of course) system running sendmail. Their current e-mail software (please don't laugh) is AIMS, the Apple Internet Mail Server, running on a Macintosh. AIMS supports usernames in excess of 8 characters. My problem is that there are a heck of a lot of people who are using usernames longer than 8 characters in their pop account settings for their e-mail programs. Is there a way I can make FreeBSD (or any UNIX in general) understand usernames longer than 8 characters so the system can remain backwords compatible, or am I going to experience hell when I make this change? If anyone has any suggestions or has faced a similar situation I would greatly appreciate your imput. Thank you in advance. :-) - Andrew Kohtz - akohtz@amug.org - andrew@kohtz.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message