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

[David Anselmi]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
[...]
> For example I would want sales at domain1.com delivering mail to user1837, 
> but when someone tries to retrieve mail via pop, they use 
> 'sales at domain1.com' as their username, not 'user1837'.  In fact 
> 'user1837' is completely transparent to this user.  As far as they are 
> concerned, they are just sales at domain1.com with a password.

With an imap server that supports virtual hosting, there is no user1837 
(in /etc/passwd).  The imap server manages the spool files and accounts 
itself.

Courier-IMAP will do this.  Cyrus will do this (though it seems you need 
the latest, 2.2 I think).  I don't know about Dovecot or UW.

Dave