usernames with an "@" symbol

Alberto Tablado alberto at aluki.org
Tue Feb 10 12:46:35 EST 2004


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.

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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