Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:29:41 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email push and pull (was Re: matthew dillon) Message-ID: <a05200f1aba72f3dfcc66@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <3E4D3D70.266DB2E4@mindspring.com> References: <20030211032932.GA1253@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <a05200f2bba6e8fc03a0f@[10.0.1.2]> <3E498175.295FC389@mindspring.com> <a05200f38ba6f51f20eff@[10.0.1.2]> <3E49C434.D8D497EE@mindspring.com> <a05200f44ba6fe5dff1a0@[10.0.1.2]> <3E4A83BC.8A15E7C3@mindspring.com> <a05200f4fba70847460b3@[10.0.1.2]> <3E4B12F5.2608BBB@mindspring.com> <a05200f5cba7146e25655@[10.0.1.2]> <3E4BB64E.A9AEED28@mindspring.com> <a05200f06ba71eac7fe1c@[10.0.1.2]> <3E4C9612.2777D62E@mindspring.com> <a05200f12ba7298a80b59@[10.0.1.2]> <3E4D3D70.266DB2E4@mindspring.com>
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At 11:03 AM -0800 2003/02/14, Terry Lambert wrote:
> I solved this particular problem by modifying Cyrus to know
> about domains. But the point was kind of that there are IMAP4
> clients that strip "@.*" off logins, if they have "@" in them.
Sorry, client problems are things I can't fix.
> The LDAP should be used to determine the set of back end servers,
> not to strip the domain name, and use it to pick a domain-specific
> back end server. The reason this is true should be obvious: if it
> doesn't, then the number of domains you can support is limited to,
> at most, the number of back end servers.
I believe that Perdition maps a given user@domain string to a
unique username on a given back-end machine. Therefore, you should
be able to support an indefinite number of domains on a small number
of back-end machines.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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