From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 3 05:34:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA04172 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 05:34:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beast.gu.net (beast-fxp0.gu.net [194.93.191.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA04165 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 05:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stesin@gu.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beast.gu.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA18267; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 16:28:28 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from stesin@gu.net) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 16:28:25 +0300 (EEST) From: Andrew Stesin Reply-To: stesin@gu.net To: Steven Fletcher cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8 char username limitations In-Reply-To: <3529de82.72495505@mailhost.shellnet.co.uk> Message-ID: X-NCC-RegID: ua.gu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Steven Fletcher wrote: > > I think that I am writing to the correct group here, please correct me > if not. freebsd-isp@ ? but anyway... > The NT machines have been acting as POP3 email servers for years now, > with usernames such as "joebloggs-pickup". The idea is that we can > simply swap the machine IP's over, and no-one's mail will need > re-configuring (approx 160 users). Currently, I can't make such > usernames, and I'm pretty sure that a hack here and there should fix > that, but I'll need some pointers. The straightforward solution (bigger hammer :) is to utilize sendmail's USERDB feature, described in sendmail's Operation Manual. Worked for me in a similar situation. Also gives some other nifty features. > -Steven Fletcher (steven@shellnet.co.uk) Best regards, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message