Hi, Can you tell me how to stop having these emails sent to me? Thanks Rosemary > 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. You have to think about > what the software can do to make it easier on the user. > >>> If you configure that plugin correctly (for starters, put >>> $dontUseHostName into the $virtualDomains array and turn it off for >>> the local domain), >> >> Sounds like I will need to take a look a the Login Manager plugin... >> >> Oh, now *that* I'd never even considered: >> >> ? make sure all usernames given on login page >> have the domain that corresponds to the domain >> in the URL of the login page appended to them >> >> ? allow users to log in with just a "user" when >> in fact their IMAP login might be something >> like "username@xxxxxxxxxx" >> >> 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). > >>> you can make such a system work, although in general I think you are >>> asking for trouble when you try to put both kinds of users on the >>> same machine. >> >> It's a decade too late for that... >> >>> I don't see any reason why you'd ever need to keep local mail users >>> if you already have a virtual setup. >> >> Local users are those who can login to the shell, it seems only polite >> to have their email be part of their shell account, especially as some >> things are a bit easier to do from the shell. > > 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
