Re: Setting default domain

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On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Andrea Gozzi <asgozzi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 10:26 -0700, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Andrea Gozzi <asgozzi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi all.
>> > I run a mailserver hosting various domains. A couple days ago I moved
>> > another domain to it and since most users are..ehm.. IT-challenged, I
>> > tried to keep everything as transparent as possible.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, most users on the old server were logging in on SM
>> > entering only the username part of their addresses (eg. using "joe" for
>> > "joe@xxxxxxxxxxx"). This used to work because their webmail was
>> > dedicated for "domain1" and I had configured SM accordingly.
>> > Of course, on the new server, this doesn't work anymore, and I have been
>> > submerged by complaints.
>> >
>> > My question is: can I configure SM to append "@domain1.com" only if the
>> > username is specified, and don't append anything if the full address is
>> > provided?
>>
>> http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=47
>
> Maybe I am wrong, but I read the docs and I'm still unsure of how to
> achieve what I want.
> When I migrated "domain1.com" to the new server, I changed accordingly
> also "webmail.domain1.com". That same server is also configured to
> respond to "webmail.domain2.com" and unfortunately I have people with
> "domain1.com" accounts doing so.

When I use my Gmail username and password to login at yahoo.com, it
gives me an error.  This is a good thing.

> Parsing the login domain from either the URL or the SERVER_NAME doesn't
> guarantee 100% success - because if a user reaches SM from
> "webmail.domain2.com" he won't be allowed to login.

Then please explain how SM is supposed to know if user "jose" who
logged in at example.org really wanted to log into
jose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?  The mind reading capabilities of SM are still
under development.

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