"Henning Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:15:43PM -0400, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> > I've been thinking about the uid attribute a little bit, and it seems
> > completely redundant. If pop3d was modified to lookup mail=uid@domain,
--snip--
> Well, this is much to complicated and error-prone IMHO. I don't like the
> idea of "virtual pop3 servers". Our mail machines have 2 to 5 IPs each
while
> the webhosting ones have a few hundred.
> I thought about adding "(|(mail=[supplied
> uid])(mailalternateaddress=[supplied uid]))" to the search string. This
way
> users could just login using their email address. We all know that there
are
> lients out not allowing @ in the username - they are stupid, ignore them,
> kick them, burn them, whatever ;-)) they can still log in using their
"real"
> uid. the modification should be fairly easy.
why not specifying multiple uid entries in stead of modifying the source..?
of course this makes the db a little bigger, but it's very simple on the
other side. (and works with imap4 or whatever too, without any further
changes..)
daniel
