> IMail cannot "intelligently" associate a user account (just the user > name) with a newly-developed IP-less virtual domain. If it did so, > the product would be in the realm of Artificial Intelligence and > would sell for much more ;)
I'm going to come on even stronger than Guy here: there would be no logical consistency in an application authenticating the same credentials against multiple hosts. The username is required to be unique on any system to have even basic security; with each duplicate, brute-force attacks increase greatly in effectiveness. Accidental account compromise also becomes much more common: if you forget your password, and your guessed credentials are valid on another domain, you'd be logged in immediately to someone else's account and retrieve their messages. That's just one of the many use cases that show how illogical such a "feature" would be. And that's leaving aside performance: the overhead of authenticating against every hosted domain could slow the server to a crawl. Imail's hosting capabilities are designed specifically to segregate userbases. This is what makes the product far superior to servers that allow you to use Host Alias-like functionality, but only against a single master domain. For instance, if the master domain is isp.net, my hosted domain is domain.com, and my real username is swhitema, no one one else at *any* domain could use the username [EMAIL PROTECTED] Differentiation then has to occur at the user alias level, which is much more cumbersome to manage then Imail's model. -Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
