usernames with an "@" symbol

[Igor Brezac]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Alberto Tablado wrote:

> The '@' it isn't a valid character for mail addresses. In addition, it
> splits local parts from domains. Certainly you'll have problems facing
> SMTP servers.

Why?

Email address is not the same as username, although their values can be
the same.

-Igor

>
> El dom, 08 de 02 de 2004 a las 21:12, Robin M. escribió:
> > Sorry if this made it two times
> >
> > Hi I am trying to get usernames with an @ symbol to work properly.
> >
> > My postfix, saslauthd, and ldap all work properly. I used the Invoca rpms
> > of the 2.2.3 release.
> >
> > In my /etc/imapd.conf
> > <snip>
> > configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> > partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> > admins: Administrator
> > sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
> > sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> > hashimapspool: true
> > sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> > sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> > tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
> > tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
> > tls_ca_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
> > virtdomains: yes
> > defaultdomain: draftmail.org
> > </snip>
> >
> > When I try to log in to the cyrus imap server it truncates the @....
> > portion of the login name i.e.
> >
> > [robin at pdc]# telnet localhost 143
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > * OK mail.draftmail.org Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.3-Invoca-RPM-2.2.3-4 server ready
> > . login robin at draftmail.org secretpass
> > . NO Login failed: authentication failure
> >
> > [robin at pdc]# tail /var/log/ldap
> > Feb  8 12:30:34 pdc slapd[23259]: conn=280 op=1 SRCH base="dc=draftmail,dc=org" scope=2 filter="(uid=robin)"
> >
> > Also when I deliver mail through lmtp via postfix cyrus writes the mailbox
> > out as
> > /var/spool/imap/r/user/robin
> >
> > and using cyradm
> >
> > [robin at pdc]# cyradm --user Administrator 127.0.0.1
> > Password:
> > localhost.localdomain> cm user.robin at draftmail.org
> > createmailbox: Invalid mailbox name
> > localhost.localdomain> cm user.test
> > localhost.localdomain> quit
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