Re: [cobalt-users] Virtusertable again

["Stuart Low" <thedude@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 1)Which is the correct command to restart etc/mail/access? Does "mailctl
> restart" work for the Raq?

Erm,

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart
/etc/rc.d/init.d/poprelayd restart

> 2)Are the options REJECT and DISCARD accepted while editing the access
file?

Not sure about what 'access file' you are talking about here? It is a stock
mail setup so I guess if it works with a standard sendmail setup it will
work.

> 3)If i have all the updates to my Raq3, what is the maximum size of a
> username with and without the . (dot in the middle)?

255  characters I THINK.

> 4)Has someone found a reasonable way around the following situation: 2000
> users to be distributed among 150 virtual sites, each of these virtual
sites
> are vanity email domains which have surnames after @ like:
>    user1@xxxxxxxxxx   user2@xxxxxxxxxx  user3@xxxxxxxx
>     It happens that all of them want a short first name as john, david,
dan
> ;-) but of course there are at least 20 john among the 2000. The webmail
> program is not hackable for them to authenticate exclusively via email
> address. There has to be a login name but i would prefer not to let them
> notice they are john155 or john1023. Also, the Webmail program  (although
it
> is possible to configure a "reply to" address of john@xxxxxxxxxx for
> everybody) would always "confess" to the recipient that the email was from
> john155@xxxxxxxxxxx If someone has an easy way around this mess, then
> prepare to fase 2: What if in some of the cases there are more than two
john
> with surname crosby, for instance? Should i seriously consider two or more

Well I suppose there is a few answers to this situation. Personally I would
get a standard Linux machine and setup qmail on it which would probably fix
your problem (would have john%stills.com and john%nash.com). However, a
standard Linux machine is no where near as friendly as a RaQ and you would
need an admin (*raises hand* I am here! :-)) as well as having to find an
appropriate host (would probably recommend acsdatanet.com & globaltap.com
for those in U.S.). The other alternative would be to hack the webmail
program so that you could do lookup in a MySQL database or something of the
like and convert both the reply-to and the actual login information to the
appropriate fields (*raises hand again*). That said however, the first
solution would by FAR be the most suitable imho and also safer.

Stuart
thedude@xxxxxxxxxxx