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
