Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:01:59 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Usernames (was Sendmail, POP3 & RADIUS, etc.) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961231125640.285D-100000@sidhe.memra.com> In-Reply-To: <199612312029.MAA08525@syzygy.zytek.com>
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On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Samara McCord wrote: > 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. Rather than calling it an ugly name, call it an Account ID and give customers a configuration form that clearly distinguishes the Account ID from the email address. Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
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