On 2-Mar-2009, at 01:27, Paul Lesniewski wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:06 PM, LuKreme <kremels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 1-Mar-2009, at 15:12, Paul Lesniewski wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:27 PM, LuKreme <kremels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> I have a squirrelmail install that processes both virtual users (user@xxxxxxxxxxx >>>> ) and local users (user@xxxxxxxxxxx). The local users have to login >>>> as 'user' while everyone else logs in as 'user@xxxxxxxxxxx' >>>> >>>> What I would like to do is allow EITHER 'user@xxxxxxxxxxx' or >>>> 'user' for the local (example.org) users (obviously the virtual >>>> users still have to use user@xxxxxxxxxxx as their user name). >>> >>> Not so obvious if you use the Login Manager plugin, which allows the >>> virtual users also to log in as "user" also (which IMO is a good >>> thing). >> >> I don't see how that is possible; there is a LOT of name collision >> between domains. For example, almost ever hosted domain has a 'sales@xxxxxxxxxx >> ' and a 'webmaster@xxxxxxxxxx' address. > > Just because the end user puts in "mary" on the login screen does not > mean that the plugin can't construct the real IMAP username to give to > the IMAP server when actually logging in. Since all users go to a single address to access squirrelmail, yeah, it sort does mean that the plugin can't do that. I would have to dramatically change how SM is accessed, and that means getting users used to something new. >> Hmm.. I will have to think about that. Clearly it has some benefits, >> but it will need some retraining of the monke-- er, users. > > Not really. You can configure the plugin to also allow full email > address logins (and either respect them or strip the domain part off). See above. > Depends on the environment and use model of course, but most of the > time there should never be regular users on the mail system. There > are in fact ways to configure Pine to use virtual mail accounts, but > anyway, if you only have one server for your whole business and users > have to log into the server to use some software on it, then sure, I > can understand why you might want local mail accounts, but with the > price of computing hardware today, I find it hard to imagine why you > couldn't buy a second machine. We have three machines and adding another would require buying more IP addresses. One machine is primary DNS and webmail, one machine is secondary DNS, mail, and other web services. The third machine is the MySQL server. Shell users have access to only the secondary DNS machine (the other current IPs are used for routers). -- I love as only I can, with all my heart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
