Hi Ken,
you missed that his problem is the length of the login-name. logging in with aa@...
isn't possible and your .qmail-a solution doesn't change this.
blinky
> On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 07:23, Divyank Turakhia wrote:
>> How do i add a username with 1 character only. The problem is one of my
>> clients is using some outdated local mail server which allows usernames
>> to
>> be only 20 characters. His domain name is 18 characters. The @ sign takes
>> 1
>> character. that leaves only one chartered for his username. When i try to
>> add a letter username it gives me an error stating "illegal username".
>>
>> Is there any way i can add a one character username??? some thing like
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Divyank
>>
>>
> Unfortunately, no. All the single characters are reserved
> for directory hashing.
> What you could do is give him a new email address with
> two or more characters, then create an alias that points
> his single character address to his new address.
> For example:
> vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> valias -i "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> the valias command does the same thing as
> echo "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/.qmail-a
> Ken Jones
