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by **William Won** » Sat, 18 Aug 2001 02:26:53

Hi,
I would like to allow the period '.' in email addresses. For example,

If my DNS entry is IN MX 10 mail.some.domain.com then

a user called william.wong of the host mail.some.domain.com. However,
I could not create an user account with '.' as a legal character. So can
william.wong
be mapped to an account, say wwong, in mail.some.domain.com? Or any other
way to do that? How about the relay configuration to support this?

Thanks in advance.

William

by **Tony Curti** » Sat, 18 Aug 2001 02:38:37

>> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:26:53 +0800,

> Hi, I would like to allow the period '.' in email

See the man page for aliases(5)

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by **MStrongM** » Sat, 18 Aug 2001 04:24:21

I'll trying this one ... . Hey all those simple devices like keyboards,
graphics cards, and mouse need to be configured properly.

Sometimes it's has 105 keys when you said 102. And refresh rate for your screen
blows the whole thing. Mouse is best AUTO. (That's what they tell me.)

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I'm mister but don't call me this anymore. Are cans better than fresh?

by **Per Hedela** » Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:39:21

>I would like to allow the period '.' in email addresses. For example,

>If my DNS entry is IN MX 10 mail.some.domain.com then

>a user called william.wong of the host mail.some.domain.com. However,
>I could not create an user account with '.' as a legal character. So can
>william.wong
>be mapped to an account, say wwong, in mail.some.domain.com? Or any other
>way to do that?

As has already been pointed out, aliases is the way to do this.

Quote:> How about the relay configuration to support this?

There is none needed, since no relaying is taking place - the mail is
delivered locally. You'd typically add the domain name (some.domain.com)
to /etc/mail/local-host-names (or it could be /etc/sendmail.cw, depends
on your version of sendmail which unless you've installed a different/
newer version depends on your version of FreeBSD) to have it recognized
as "local", but this has nothing to do with the period-in-username
issue.

--Per Hedeland

by **Michael Joyne** » Tue, 11 Sep 2001 01:56:59

Have you tried GECOS field matching from the sendmail.cf file?

> Hi,
> I would like to allow the period '.' in email addresses. For example,

> If my DNS entry is IN MX 10 mail.some.domain.com then

> a user called william.wong of the host mail.some.domain.com. However,
> I could not create an user account with '.' as a legal character. So can
> william.wong
> be mapped to an account, say wwong, in mail.some.domain.com? Or any other
> way to do that? How about the relay configuration to support this?

> Thanks in advance.

> William

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How to implement '.' in email addresses?

How to implement '.' in email addresses?

How to implement '.' in email addresses?

How to implement '.' in email addresses?

How to implement '.' in email addresses?

How to implement '.' in email addresses?