> What is your recommendation for the IMAP server that allows > [EMAIL PROTECTED] type of login? I'm currently using uw-IMAP that came with > RH8.0 > (imap-2001a-15). Does this version of IMAP server allows fully qualified > email address as a login, and if so is there an instruction how I can > configure this?
I don't know UW-IMAP well enough to know - maybe someone else can help here? Courier-IMAP does, and I think Cyrus should as well. Good luck, paul >> Maybe I don't understand the whole logic. What I would like to do is >> login to the squirrelmail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and send the outbound mail >> as [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, the current behavior is that I'm logging >> in as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but squirrelmail sends the mail as >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there something I am missing? > > Not really. The disconnect is that your IMAP server expects the > username "two" and thus you have to remap it when logging in. From then > on, SM thinks you are user "two" (and tacks on the domain name to get > the whole email address). That's why I said if you can reconfigure your > IMAP server to expect usernames like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", then you could > forget all this confusing username mappings. Otherwise, you've mapped > it logging in, and need to "un"-map it going out, which means a source > hack for SM or extra configuration in your MTA. > > cheers, > > paul > >>> > But then, how do I translate the username part? >>> > For example, I have a user in the virtusertable >>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] two >>> > When the user logs in as a [EMAIL PROTECTED], the squirrelmail logs in >>> the user >>> > as a local "two" user. When this user sends an outbound email, the >>> FROM address >>> > is being composed as [EMAIL PROTECTED]: a local username + domain name >>> (from users.dat) >>> > How do I translate the username part to the virtual username, so >>> that >>> the mail goes >>> > out from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a variable that translate this >>> name >>> in the users.dat >>> > file (much like domains=domain.com, i.e username=virtual user)? >>> >>> the username can't be changed so easily. It must remain the correct >>> IMAP username... you are needing to remap the username when you send? >>> You might be able to do that with your SMTP server. I would ask if >>> you are logging in as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and you also want to send >>> with that email address, why to you even need the "two" account name? >>> Can't you synch your IMAP server up with the rest of you system? if >>> you still need to solve this problem in SquirrelMail, it'd have to be >>> a source hack... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
