defaultdomain question

[Igor Brezac]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Adi Linden wrote:

>> If I set "defaultdomain: retrix.com", the full hostname of my machine
>> "strongmad.retrix.com" gets used as the default of domain. Likewise, if
>> I set "defaultdomain: strongmad.retrix.com", then "retrix.com" is the
>> default domain (as expanded in my database query using the %r
>> variable).
>
> From 'man imapd.conf':
>
> virtdomains: off
>     Enable virtual domain support.  If enabled, the user's domain will
>     be  determined  by  splitting a fully qualified userid at the last
>     '@' or '%' symbol.  If the userid is unqualified, and the  virtdo-
>     mains option is set to "on", then the domain will be determined by
>     doing a reverse lookup on the IP address of the  incoming  network
>     interface,  otherwise  the  user  is  assumed to be in the default
>     domain (if set).

The last part of this man page is incomplete.  When cyrus does the reverse 
lookup for unqualified userids, the host part of fqdn will be discarded 
(so if reverse lookup resolves to strongmad.retrix.com, cyrus will use 
retrix.com)

-- 
Igor
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