[IMail Forum] Period in account names

[Jeffery Rehm]

I'm installing IMail for a company that has forever used accounts in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] format.  Although the docs don't specifically mention using a period in a user name (at least I didn't see it), I did read that an alias name should not use any special characters other than an underscore.  Does this apply to user names also?   I set them up with the period in the username and I also created an alias or two that have a period in the name.  IMail appears to not mind this, as it has been processing the mail correctly.   Just wondering if anyone has run into any issues with this.  These folks are not opposed to dropping the period, but they'd rather not if it can be avoided.  If we did drop it, I would still need to setup an alias for each user with the old user name containing the period that resolves to the new name without the period until everyone was notified of the new addresses.