Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:29:14 -0800 From: Samara McCord <mccord@zytek.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Usernames (was Sendmail, POP3 & RADIUS, etc.) Message-ID: <199612312029.MAA08525@syzygy.zytek.com>
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>> > Can you then have the same username in different domains? ie. >> > matt@hamilton.clintondale.com and matt@james.clintondale.com. > > There's really only one good way to do it. That's by using procmail and >mailertables in sendmail. No fizzling, just put the domain in mailertables and >separate configuration file for each domain. After that one can have >sales@domain >sales@virt.domain1 >sales@virt.domain2 >and e.g. all others in virt.domain2 forwarded to bill@virt.domain2. > I think this still misses the main point. Sure it's no problem to use sendmail, etc. to convert any old name you want into unique *8 character* names, but then the question is: HOW IS MAIL RETRIEVED?. Most people are willing to accept 8-character usernames for email, but here is the problem: we have a dozen separate domains from separate companies all on the same machine with the same POP server and the same password file. How do I explain to company A that the user name: "joeblow" is not available because company B has already used it? Only by making the POP user name (and hence the /etc/password name) so ugly that they don't confuse it with an email address (and in fact, not useable as an email address), and then training them to use POP user names as strictly internal and then we can map whatever domain-specific email name (i.e. return address) they want into that 8-character ugly name. Sam
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