On Tue, 11 May 1999, Jonathan W Herbert wrote:
> 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.
>
The easiest way for me was to do ip-based virtual pop3 servers. With
tcpserver the TCPLOCALIP environment gives you the local ip address they
are connecting to, you can use this information to determine which
password database to look up the info in. In my case, I use the ip
address to determine the Base DN to search on in my LDAP Directory.
James
