[TriLUG] dotted username?

Glenn Hennessee hennesse at chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu
Mon Jun 21 08:36:03 EDT 2004


Make joe.blow an alias in /etc/aliases and point it to the real
account. E.g.

joe.blow: jblow

run newaliases after modifying the aliases file so the system "knows" the
new/modified list.

glenn

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Brian Henning wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>   I'm setting up an in-house e-mail server to apply some e-mail filtering
> and spam management.  There are currently some usernames and/or aliases at
> our current (3rd-party) e-mail server contain dots in the username (such as
> joe.blow[at]strutmasters.com).  Apparently such a username is not a valid
> UNIX username, so how do I create a mailbox that has a dot in its name?  I'd
> like to avoid changing anyone's e-mail address at all costs, really.
> I'm running sendmail on FC2.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers,
> ~Brian
>
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> Brian A. Henning
> Strutmasters.com
> 866.597.2397
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>
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