Re: [cobalt-users] POP3 e-mail limitation on RAQ3

[Jan Tietze <jptietze@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I feel you have a serious misunderstanding of how e-mail works in
general, and on the RaQ specifically. There is no such thing as e-mail
addresses per IP, and also, this 'problem' is not specific to a
particular brand of Unix. The limitation is in fact that the user
account used to spool (and fetch) mail for a particular address (set of
addresses) has to be unique for the whole system, ie. having two
addresses like "info@xxxxxxxxxxx" and "info@xxxxxxxxxxx" is very well
possible, yet the POP3 username for these two accounts cannot be the
same. This is not a problem, it is inherent to this technology. Other
vendors are using the whole email address as POP3 login name, yet this
brings another limitation (when multiple domains are being spooled to a
single POP3 mailbox, the mailbox name doesn't really reflect the mail
spool anymore, and the system is not as intuitive as before). Am I
misunderstanding your problem? I have multiple POP3 accounts per domain
defined in the GUI, and the system works as expected. I have e-mail
address like webmaster@xxxxxxxxxx defined for every domain, with the
mail being spooled to separate domains, and it works.

Regarding your understanding of your other ISP's POP3 account
management, please ask yourself by what means - if separate POP3
mailboxes with the same _mailbox_ name should really exist - the system
could determine which mailbox to access... note there is a difference
between e-mail address and POP3 login name; the two are not necessarily
the same.

"dsecuya@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just scanned the RAQ3 manual and I've read that you can
> only create 1 unique POP3 account across all virtual sites on
> the RAQ3.  This is because all users share the same password
> database file (/etc/passwd). This seems to be a serious limitation
> on creating POP3 e-mail addresses on the RAQ3 especially if you've
> got dozens of virtual sites hosted on the server.  My other ISP
> that is running BSD UNIX allows you to create unlimited unique
> POP3 e-mail accounts per one IP.
>
> Anybody out there who was able to get around this limitation on
> a RAQ3 machine?