Do you have an extra IP address with reverse DNS. This might help (from
http://inter7.com/vpopmail/vpopmail.html):
--enable-ip-alias-domains=y|n enable virutal domain lookup via reverse ip
address lookup for virtual domains.
By default, ever domain uses name based virtual domains. That is: users must
supply their domain name in their pop name. i.e. <user>%<virtualdomain>.
This can be overridden for one domain using the --enable-default-domain
option.
Vpopmail also supports IP based virtual domains. If this option is turned
on, and the user does not supply %<virtualdomain> then a reverse IP lookup
is done on the server IP address that the client connected to. If the
servers IP address resolves to a domain name, then vpopmail uses that name
as the domain. For example:
IP w.x.y.z resolves to test.com. User sets their pop server ip to w.x.y.z
and connects. Vpopmail gets the connection, checks the IP of the SERVER side
of the connection. Does a reverse IP lookup and obtains test.com. User sends
joe as their pop user name. Vpopmail uses test.com as the domain.
You can mix and match name and ip based virtual domains.
It should allow you to login as "a" and it will get the domain that they
need to authenticate from the reverse DNS.
-Ryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Divyank Turakhia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ken Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "vpopmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 7:46 AM
Subject: RE: 1 character username
> i figured tht ... but thts for giving him a 1 letter email address ... i
> need to give him a 1 letter user which can be authenticated using vchkpw
...
> cause its his username which needs to be limited to 20 chars ...
>
> ne other ideas tht you can think of???
>
> Div
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:04 PM
> > To: Divyank Turakhia
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: 1 character username
> >
> >
> > 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 clients is using some outdated local mail server which allows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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
