hi,
if that is handled by an alias faq 4.6 applies:
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4.6. How do I create aliases with dots? I tried setting up
~alias/.qmail-P.D.Q.Bach, but it doesn't do anything.
Answer: Use .qmail-p:d:q:bach. Dots are converted to colons, and
uppercase is converted to lowercase.
--snip--
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: martin langhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: does qmail support dots in user names?
>
>
> hi,
>
> if I have a user called "user.com", can I tell qmail to use it as a
> recipient for a virtualdomain? Like in
>
> virtualdomains:
> ---
> user.com:user.com
> ---
>
>
> I have tried doing this and qmail cannot find the user at all. Mails to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] got bounced with a "Sorry, no mailbox here by that
> name. (#5.1.1)".
>
> Checking the maillog, I can see that qmail-send does translate
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] into [EMAIL PROTECTED], so the
> virtdomain rules are being applied ok. Now when it comes the time to
> actually find the domain.com user, it fails.
>
> I've also tested sending mails to domain.com@localhost and they failed
> with a (#5.1.1) error. So my conclusion is that qmail does not behave
> properly with dotted user names. Is this documented somewhere? Or am I
> doing something wrong?
>
>
> martin
>
