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Subject: Re: usernames with 's in them.
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 08:16:59 CST

As of Postfix version 19991231 you cannot have usernames with
(or any routing operator such as %, or !).

        Wietse

Adam Shand:
>
> hey.
>
> we have a slightly weird setup where we actually have usernames with 's in
> them for virtually hosted stuff. so we would have a passwd file entry that
> looked like this:
>
> adamdomain.com:x:1404:1:Adam Shand:/home/domain.com/adam:/usr/bin/passwd
>
> in sendmail i could make this work by having a virtusertable entry like
> this (the \ escaping the sign so it will deliver to a local user):
>
> adamdomain.com adam\domain.com
>
> i am having trouble making postfix emulate this functionality with the
> virtual file, so i suspect i'm either approaching it wrong or looking in the
> wrong place.
>
> any help would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> adam.
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