Re: [cobalt-users] Virtusertable again

[SM <nntp@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:27 04-09-2001 -0300, Zarrir Junior wrote:
>1)Which is the correct command to restart etc/mail/access? Does "mailctl
>restart" work for the Raq?

Run newaliases.

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

Yes.

>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)?

The username (login) is limited to 8 characters IIRC.  Sendmail aliases can
be longer than that.

>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

You have not explained how the user authenticates.  It is not difficult to
modify Sendmail and Qpopper to support such a setup.  You will have to
modify the authentication code of your Webmail for the setup to work.

>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
>dedicated servers?

That is why you allocate a unique username for each mailbox.  Then you can
have two Johns.  You can run such a setup on one server.

Regards,
-sm