I'm interested!
I am/will be multi-hosting many domains under one DBmail installation,
and have my users login using their full email address as their
username. For those POP/IMAP clients that do not support "@" in the
username, I was intending to patch DBMail to look up users in the
Aliases table which would be populated with "%" and "_" versions of
the login (e.g. user%domain, user_domain).
If you already or almost have this feature made into a code patch,
I would gratefully make use of it.
-Daniel
Wrote Jesse Norell:
>
> Hello,
>
> Trying to solicit some response for interest in a feature of dbmail.
> We had a fairly good size user base when we migrated to dbmail that
> were all using short usernames, and we wanted to start using long names,
> but knew we couldn't just up and switch, so we wrote a little patch to
> help the migration which allows users to use multiple login names via
> another lookup table. Would anyone else find this useful? If so,
> we've patched both mysql and pgsql to do this (under dbmail 1.x tree)
> and if we could get it adopted into the main dbmail source, we can
> stop maintaining our own custom patches and go to the debian packages.
> :)
>
> The actual implimentation is a simple lookup table (which we called
> usermap), which is simply a map of user_idnr, userid pairs. The
> normal lookup is done for a matchind userid in users table, and if
> one is not found, a query is done for a matching usermap entry (or it
> may be reversed, falling back to users table if usermap entry isn't
> found). All new users are only added to the users table, using full
> email address logins, and at the time of conversion we filled the
> usermap with all the short names. The same table could facilitate
> a number of other scenarios as well (login names at different
> domains, etc.).
>
> I don't know that we've tested the results without having the
> usermap table created, but I'm sure it could be handled so that if
> you've not done so it continues on without a problem. So - anyone
> interested? (And will any new features eveb be accepted for dbmail
> 1.x?)
>
> Jesse
>
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> Jesse Norell
> jesse (at) kci.net
>
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