on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:54:50PM -0800, The Little Prince wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Steven Champeon wrote: > > > on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:02:42PM +0530, Raja wrote: > > > Would like to setup a mail server. We have multiple domains with > > > single IP address. is the QPOPPER supports virtual domains? ie, I > > > would like to have, for example, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] with single > > > IP address. I'll be grate for your advises. > > > > Virtual domains don't have anything to do with qpopper. They're an MTA > > (mail transfer agent) function, not a POP function. As far as qpopper > > knows, there are no domains at all, just spool files (or their > > equivalent). > > that's not really true. lots of pop3 servers support virtual domains, > so usernames can be non-unique across multiple mail domains, users can > login simply with their email address, organizational reasons, etc..
My point was that it doesn't matter whether qpopper supports it or not, the initial distinction between user@abc and user@def is made by the MTA. > the faq just states that "qpopper" doesn't support them natively, not that > they're not a function of pop3 at all. They are not a function of POP3, though. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1939.txt As far as POP3 is concerned, the token following USER only has to apply to some maildrop or another, and be uniquely identified. You may log in with a token that resembles an email address, but for all practical intents and purposes, it's just a token. And your claim that the username can be non-unique pertains only to the LHS of the "address", not to the token as a whole. -- hesketh.com/inc. v: (919) 834-2552 f: (919) 834-2554 w: http://hesketh.com The average person needs trepanation like he needs a hole in the head. -ca
