From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 31 13:59:24 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA24080 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA24071 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:59:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA27078 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:59:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA03376; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 08:58:06 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 08:58:05 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Samara McCord cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Usernames (was Sendmail, POP3 & RADIUS, etc.) In-Reply-To: <199612312029.MAA08525@syzygy.zytek.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Samara McCord wrote: > 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 Use IP aliasing, and xinetd or Julian's (Assange or Elischer, I can't remember) fancy inetd to run a separate 'popd' in a separate chroot(2)ed subsystem with separate password file for each domain. Or hack popper to do the getsockname() call and use a database of names/passwords per IP address. You can use procmail to do the mail delivery to separate /var/mail/IP/ directories for each virtual domain. Danny