[cobalt-developers] user / mail account names character limitations

[Tom Hanberg <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am having trouble creating some user/mail accounts of my Raq4r.

The GUI will not allow me to enter a mail username more than 12 
characters.  I know that I can enter a different name as the username, and 
set up the "alias" as a longer name, but the client I am transferring to 
the Raq has dozens of POP accounts on another server, and I don't want to 
tell them they have to change all their mail set-up options for each 
account to delete characters of their POP login name.

Is this just a limitation of the Cobalt GUI? I have a FreeBSD box that has 
13 and 14 character mail login accounts, so I think it should be able to be 
done!

Can I go in with Telnet and create these accounts instead of using the GUI?

I really don't want to have my non technical client have to edit their mail 
settings on all these accounts since they are all on different machines run 
by different people nationwide. Since the POP and SMTP servers are their 
domain names, nothing would have to change if I could just get their 
usernames the same as they are now, without this 12 character limitation.

If anyone has any help, I'd appreciate it.


Tom Hanberg
I-Net Group, Inc.
Skyhound Internet
Long Beach, CA