Newbie help: Domain names as part of user names/mailboxes/etc?

Jay Levitt jay at shopwatch.org
Tue Nov 26 14:06:51 EST 2002


> At least on my server, it doesn't matter. Even though sasldblistusers2
> shows me as harrisl at d8100.landgarten.local, I still sign in from Outlook
> and Evolution as harrisl and my mailboxes which were created with cyradm
> are in the form user.harrisl.inbox etc. Remember you still have to
> create user jay in cyradm even though you already created a password for
> user jay in saslpassword2. The username that you set up in cyradm is
> what the imap server will know you as. Sasl will be used for
> authentication if you use auxprops in your config and you don't supply
> your domain when signing in. Try signing in with imtest -m login as jay
> after creating a password for jay with saslpassword2 and you will see
> that it works.

Not on my server... :(  That's how I started digging into the whole mess in
the first place.  When sasldblistusers2 shows jay at linux.home.jay.fm, I
cannot login with imtest (or a real client) as just "jay", only as
jay at linux.home.jay.fm.  Maybe there is something wrong with my imapd.conf?

Jay





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