No, the @ sign is normally stripped out by email clients.
Hence we fool the email client by using the % sign.
Ken
Steve Belt wrote:
>
> Is that a typo. I thought it was:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Steve B.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: iv0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Eric Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:56 PM
> Subject: Re: qmail-pop3d and vchckpasswd
>
> > Eric Lalonde wrote:
> > >
> > > I am trying to switch to set up virtual domains via vpopmail.
> > > In my startup script i have:
> > > env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
> > > tcpserver -uvpopmail_uid -gvpopmail_gid 0 pop-3 \
> > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup daylightfading.org \
> > > /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
> > >
> > > I installed vpopmail, ran bin/vadddomain daylightfading.org
> > > ran bin/vadduser mordac (password)
> > > Sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Tried to check the mail via outlook express but couldn't. what should
> the
> > > login to check the email be? I was under the assumption that it was
> > > domainname-username so it would be daylightfading-mordac. But this
> doesn't
> > > work. In maillog it says:
> > > Feb 25 16:10:15 damacles qmail: 951513015.486755 new msg 40216
> > > Feb 25 16:10:15 damacles qmail: 951513015.487131 info msg 40216: bytes
> 860
> > > from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 3751 uid 505
> > > Feb 25 16:10:15 damacles qmail: 951513015.491353 starting delivery 69:
> msg
> > > 40216 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Feb 25 16:10:15 damacles qmail: 951513015.491477 status: local 1/10
> remote
> > > 0/20
> > > Feb 25 16:10:15 damacles qmail: 951513015.510021 delivery 69: success:
> > > did_0+0+1/
> > > Feb 25 16:10:15 damacles qmail: 951513015.510290 status: local 0/10
> remote
> > > 0/20
> > > Feb 25 16:10:15 damacles qmail: 951513015.510999 end msg 40216
> > > Feb 25 16:11:27 damacles vpopmail[3756]: vchkpw: No user found
> > > [daylightfading-mordac@] from 169.233.15.76
> > >
> > > The trailing @ also confuses me. Doesn't look like it should be there.
> can
> > > it mean that the login to get email using the vpopmail system is
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] , instead of just
> > > 'daylightfading-mordac'?
> > >
> > > When I use the username [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > qmail-pop3d authenticates correctly, and checks for mail, but doesn't
> find
> > > the mail that was sent to the account, and doesn't log anything in my
> > > maillog, so I don't know what is really happening there.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Eric
> >
> > POP wasn't built to understand virtual domains. vpopmail gets around
> > that by having the pop user name include the domain name.
> >
> > For example: mordac%daylightfading.org as the pop user name
> > try that
> >
> > Ken Jones
> >
