Re: [cobalt-users] Username Already in use?!?

["Chris" <clathem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:04 AM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Username Already in use?!?


> > Email addresses and login addresses are completely separate.  Unless
> > you can completely virtualize all services, there's not a good way
> > around this (sell them each their own server?).  The Cobalt team
> > tinkered with this for a while, but it was going to require
> > username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as a login name to keep everything separate.
> > *That* would get a much bigger laugh, I would imagine...
> >
>
> Actually, a lot of hosts do that. I had a site hosted and my login was
> name%sample.com and I could have any POP username under that domain. I
> believe it was qmail.
>
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> C2002 Dan Kriwitsky
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Yes, qmail works with "username%domainname" as the username. I've also seen
a few webhosts that use the full "username@xxxxxxxxxx". These options make
it easy to setup accounts with the same name on multiple domains, but
getting users to configure email clients properly can sometimes be a hassle.
At times it would be nice to have this available on a Raq.

Chris