Qmail changes all dots to the : character ':' -- you might want to search
all the documentation, including the LWQ (life with qmail) home page. It
has what you need.
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#dots-in-extensions
specifically :)
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Dmitry Niqiforoff wrote:
>Hello!
>
> Yesterday I moved from sendmail to qmail and now I got a problem.
>The problem is it doesn't recognizes usernames with dots in it. For
>example, there is a user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and qmail can not
>deliver a message to him: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sorry, no mailbox
>here by that name. (#5.1.1).
>
> Is there a way to force qmail to process messages for such users
>correctly?
>
>________________________________________________________
> Regards, Dmitry Niqiforoff [tel. +7 8462 427427]
> Kraft-S, Ltd.
> Samara, Russia
>
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