Oliver Falk wrote:
Dave Hornford wrote:
I'm converting an environment from mandrake to centos, and always try to use the applications standard on the distribution. This means a switch from courier to cyrus.
A bit of reading uncovered a potential problem - the site uses firstname.lastname@domain, and I have come across references that Cyrus does not support this. I couldn't find this limitation in the Cyrus documentation.
Is it true?
Hmm. Do you need it as >username<? You could create usernames as firstname_lastname@domain and use the virtusertable to map firstname.lastname@domain to the loginname using the '_'.
Another posibility would be to use LDAP... Harder...
And yet another posibility (taken from man imapd.conf):
unixhierarchysep: 0 Use the UNIX separator character '/' for delimiting levels of mailbox hierarchy. The default is to use the netnews separator character '.'.
Oliver, Thanks All I need to do is maintain email address format firstname.lastname@domain, I do not need these as either unix/windows(samba) usernames. Currently these are a mixed bag of firstname, initiallastname & lastname. One step on the migration is to at least standardize the new ones.
Any suggestions on whether we'd be better off operationally using ldap to control the mapping or the virtusertable. It is a smallish site (<50 users), who are looking for a very automated administrative/operations environment.
This is my first cyrus so what I don't know is everything :-)
Dave