[CLUE-Tech] virtual hosting with pop/imap/usernames

[Dave Hahn]

Angelo:

Probably not the answer you were looking for, but, this is one of the 
reasons we moved from sendmail to qmail - virutalizing users for POP and 
IMAP were much simpler.  I've heard the same thing with Exim and Postfix.

However, if the issue the the picking up of the mail by the user, you 
may be able to user a system like Courier (for IMAP and POP) that will 
operate with virtualized users.  Then, the only issue is having sendmail 
get things to the right spool.

hth,

-d

Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> I thought I'd pose this question to the list, since I've never found 
> an answer to it.  I use virtual hosting with sendmail and I might have 
> a couple of email addresses like sales at domain1.com and 
> sales at domain2.com.  What I do is set up two users like sales.domain1 
> and sales.domain2, however due to the fact that some of the domain 
> names I have to deal with get ridiculously long 
> (this-is-my-insanely-long-domain-name.com), I can't always do 
> something that pretty.  I would like to find a way I can allow users 
> to use their email address as their login name when retrieving mail.  
> So when someone has an email like sales at domain2.com, they use 
> sales at domain2.com as their user id, and what their username on the 
> system is actually never a concern to them.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Angelo
>
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