On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:36:42PM +0100, 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.
> >
> > 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)
I did not say spoofing. The problem is that if both
eric-shogun
eric
exists on the system, eric might try to set up a mailinglist in
~eric/.qmail-shogun
but whenever he sends a message to the list, the message would end up in
~eric-shogun/Mailbox.
Mate
