Re: long user names for POP mailboxes
> From: "Al Youngwerth" <alberty@apexxtech.com>
> To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: long user names for POP mailboxes
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:12:53 -0600
> I'm pretty sure that what I want to do is possible because I know some ISPs
> do it.
>
> Here's what I want: to allow users to have an e-mail address and a pop
> mailbox that is greater than 8 characters. For example:
> MyFirstName.MyLastName@mydomain.com.
>
> Here's my setup: smail 3.2.3, fetchmail 3.9.8 and the standard in.pop3d
> that comes with Debian.
Just add the long usernames to /etc/passwd, you might have to do this
by hand, I can't remember if adduser check the length. I've been
doing this for nearly a year with no problems. Login is ok, pop3d is
ok, smail is ok. You will probably run into problems after about 100
or 255 chars in length, depending what the smallest buffer is in all
the utils.
Hope this helps
Stephen.
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