Re: [SM-DEVEL] Setting $domain correctly

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

On 5/12/06, Tristan Woudenberg - Prism Mail Solutions <tr...@pr...> wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 00:32, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> > Um, yeah, but what you *really* need to do is tell us what you are
> > actually trying to accomplish (and what form your IMAP usernames are
> > in).  Keep in mind that your IMAP username *must* be kept AS IS
> > because SM can't keep logging into the IMAP server for each page
> > request without that information.  The Vlogin plugin will take most
> > forms of usernames and domains that you can think of and tweak them as
> > necessary to get the user logged in in the most convenient way
> > possible, but after that, the username has to stay static.
>
> Sorry about that, this is for a DirectAdmin server and since they feature
> both normal usernames like "username" and email addresses like
> "use...@do...d" as logins for the imap server I can't get anything
> out of vlogin since I sometimes have to keep the username just like
> "username". Basically I only need the domain name the user is using to
> send mails, and in 99% of the cases that's part of his login name, but for
> some the domain is only in the domain on which he's accessing
> squirrelmail.

Newest release of the vlogin plugin has a setting that allows you to
specify a list of users that should not have the domain pasted on to
their logins.  If the list is long or changes frequently, this is
probably not ideal, but that's what it is at least for now.

-paul