* Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041108 01:35]: > if you want to create a username for an email address like > firstname.lastname, use internal aliasing in your mailserver for this > > actual usernames - login name that is - are the employee's empid or > something similar - and it is aliased to firstname.lastname in the > mailserver's userdb .. easier to do this with a ldap / sql backend.
A bit offtopic for this subject, but I use /etc/passwd as the db. So, it turns out that a user foo.bar has email address as [EMAIL PROTECTED] for sending the mails, but for receiving mails he has to use foo_bar or something similar which is confusing for them. Any workarounds for this? Shantanu ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
