From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 3 09:29:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04968 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:29:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04886 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:28:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA17710; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:27:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:27:59 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow 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: 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: > However, the software running on the NT machines is now struggling, > and I've been asked to move all accounts from these to a BSD box, > running popper. However, here comes a cosmetic problem.......... A fairly simple way to do this, if there are no collisions truncating the account names to 8 characters, is using /etc/aliases and a hack to popper. That's what I did when moving mail from an SVR4 system to FreeBSD. I'm using ipop3d and can send you a patch if that's what you have. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message