RE: [cobalt-users] POP3/IMAP Mailboxes

["David Harris" <davidharris@xxxxxxxx>]

OK OK  maybe I am not communicating this the right way.
I am not asking to create two users on a system with the SAME username.
I realize this would not be possible.  However, to require my end
user to go through the whole Cobalt GUI Alias thing is just ridiculous!
I know there has to be a way to EASILY give customer a sales@xxxxxxxxxxx
while customer b gets sales@xxxxxxxxxxxx  I am not saying it is EASY to
setup,
but I need a way to make it easy for the USER to setup.   So I ask this: How
do
hosting providers offer mailboxes to their users without making them go
through this?
The last 3 IHPs I used had one form used for adding/removing/viewing pop
boxes to
my account.  They had the same thing for autoresponders and fwds.  This is
the funtionality
I want to provide to my end user, and If the cobalt can't handle this, maybe
I made a mistake
buying it.

Another option is to write a GUI that automates the email alias thing.
Maybe this is how
people are doing this. Any ideas on that one?

Is there really NO COBALT user out there that has implimented this service?
(customers can add mailboxes on the fly, without the Cobalt GUI's Alias
Option).


>
> I'm sorry, but it IS true!
>
> There is only one way to do it. Create a unique username and alias
> sales@xxxxxxxxxx to it.
>
> No unix based system (or even an NT one for that matter!) will allow
> you to create two seperate users with the SAME username.
>
> The alternative is to not use virtual hosting (more than one domain
> SHARING the same server) and deploy a server to each client where they can
> create whatever usernames they want, but it's not very cost effective.
>
> --Neil
>
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, David Harris wrote:
>
> > Hello, Dan,
> >
> > Sorry, but as far as I know, that is absolutely NOT true.  IHPs and ISP
> > offer this service on Unix based machines all the time.  I
> understand that
> > technically, it may not be called a pop3 box - it may be called
> an IMAP box,
> > but it is possible.  I don't so much care about creating 2
> logins with the
> > user sales, just 2 email addresses without having to go through
> the whole
> > alias thing (they can have whatever login they want).  All i am
> trying to do
> > is allow many different users to use "sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" as
> their own
> > email address.  This doenst sound like a very big deal, does
> it?  Can you
> > imagine running a hosting company that offers full featured
> hosting plans
> > that require users to use aliasing to acconmplish this?  That
> would not be
> > very good.
> >
> > Any other suggestions, folks?  How are you all accomplishing
> this?  And does
> > it mess up the RAQ GUI?
> >
> > Regards,
> > DAVID
> >
> >
> >
> > > >
> > > You can't create duplicate user names for a POP3 box without
> creating an
> > > alias on virtual hosts. On the same RAQ or any Unix box you
> can't have two
> > > POP3 boxes with the login name sales.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dan Kriwitsky
> > >  >
> > >
> > >
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