What about using marks ( _ ) instead of dots?
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Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 11:34
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] usernames with aux. not being able to generate
UIDs and receive mail
> > Those however created with the aux prefix fail to generate the UID
> > even when I specifically send mail from the account to the account.
>
> The problem is that "aux" is a reserved word(?) in MS-DOS, which has
carried through to Windows. So, you can not create a file or directory that
begins with "aux.". Since IMail requires a directory with the same name as
the user, I doubt there will be an easy solution.
>
> The same thing will happen if you try to create a file/directory/user
named "com1.something".
> -Scott
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