Try the addresses in the following order:
name@domain
name%domain
name_domain
For any given MUA, one of them should work. (I believe that Netscape
required the "%" syntax.)
The documentation included with vchkpw also talks about this issue.
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Jonathan W Herbert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I could be entirely wrong, but do the limitations of pop3 make
> virtualhosting mail somewhat impossible?
>
> The difficulty seems to come from the lack of a suitable identifier
> from which to discern the corresponding domain name in the
> conversation between pop3 client and server.
>
> One solution suggested pop3 usernames of `[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
> but there doesnt seem to be a standard way of having a number of
> muas do this correctly. Netscape for instance, in a misguided
> attempt to be helpful, strips off @.* from your pop3 username.
>
> I'm really scratching my head on this one.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
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> Jonathan W. Herbert
> Senior Systems Engineer
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>
>
>
>
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