On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 09:06:38AM -0700, 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.
You can use literally any user names you like, and they don't have to have
anything at all to do with the e-mail addresses they're associated with. I use
domain-user for most virtual users, but you can come up with any scheme you
like, or assign user names at random, or anything else, as long as you have
some way of associating the user name with the correct mailbox. With
qmail-pop3d, this would be done with a custom version of checkpassword, links
to a number of implementations of which you'll find at www.qmail.org.
Chris
