On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Bart Blanquart wrote:
> Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>
> > | > Is it true that the only way to deliver messages to usernames that
> > | > contain dashes is to recompile qmail telling it to use a different
> > | > escape character than -
> > |
> > | unless you're using the users/assign method for qmail to look up
> > | users, which you probably should.
Well, actually, I wrote the two lines above, not Harald. And I was
completely wrong, except that you should use users/assign. ;-)
> > Have you tested this? I haven't, but my reading of the code says
> > qmail-getpw will deal with usernames with dashes in them just fine.
> > (See my earlier message on this topic.)
>
>
> It is possible to have users with dashes in their names. I've got a bunch of those,
>and all works well (no user-spoofing like the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" vs.
>"[EMAIL PROTECTED] with .qmail-something" mentioned before seems to be possible)
>
> bt
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