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Re: user name length

It's actually very easy to do virtual users with standard unix users,

I use sendmail with feature 'stickyhost'

and just use a virtusertable as follows

glenn@sitegeneral.com                    publish01
glenn@publishmedia.com                 publish01
glenn@someotherclient.com            client01
sales@someotherclient.com             client02

And just have a password setting program that accepts the email address, looks up the virtusertable and changes the password for the associated unix user.

Infact with this sort of setup you can do unlimited aliases, forwarding and with a couple of more lines of code using the aliases database you can even do multidrop forwarding etc.

Hardest thing to do though is educate your customers to use their assigned PO Box which is an assigned account number such as for Pepsi I would use

pepsi001
pepsi002
pepsi999

Then a simple web based virtusertable editing program.......

Cheers
Glenn Hocking
Publish Media Pty Ltd

http://www.sitegeneral.com/

Emile van Bergen wrote:
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Glenn Hocking wrote:

Thanks

However I have been running virtual email where user !=  email address
for some time.

That's different; I mean POP3 user != unix user != email address.

That is, you use *two* mappings tables, to also separate POP3 users from
Unix users (most schemes like that use the same Unix user for all POP3
users), thus allowing you to use POP3 username conventions (and user
counts) not easily supported by unix's /etc/passwd.

Look at eg. vpopmail.

Cheers,


Emile.

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