On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 08:05:55PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > i know of servers which create system accounts for email users (pop3 > and imap) with the complete email address (user@host) as username. > > so especially for email addresses, the @ in system accounts might be > interesting, given that the MTA supports this scenario. > Well, I'm surprised to say the least. I have some virtual domains on a server. So I did `mail "webmaster@foobar.com"@the.real.host` and sent a test message. Surprisingly, to me anyway, I got this on the local host: Oct 7 14:32:39 miami postfix/qmgr[5717]: D2A605027F: from=<roberto@miami.connexer.com>, size=364, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 7 14:32:40 miami postfix/smtp[15855]: D2A605027F: to=<webmaster@foobar.com@the.real.host>, relay=the.real.host[w.x.y.z], delay=1, status=sent (250 Ok: queued as DB3DFC603) Then, on the receiving mail server, it stripped off the @the.real.host and then proceeded to deliver it to webmaster@foobar.com. Now, I don't know the effect if that were a system account, but it certainly works with virtual accounts. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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