Re: [webmin-l] Creating Mailboxes

[David D. <da...@en...>]

Hi Mark,

Mark Adams wrote:
> Hi jcameron,
> 
> On Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 11:13:00 PM, you wrote:
> 
> jwc> Hi Mark,
> jwc> The only solution is to select a different username prefix
> jwc> on the domain creation form. If you choose something only a few
> jwc> characters long, you won't run into this problem when creating
> jwc> mailboxes.
> 
> Yes I figured I could get round it like that, use a 2 character prefix
> and then set up an email alias to that user.  I must remember to only
> register short domain names in future!

There is another way round this. If you go in to Virtualmin's module 
config, there is an option 'Include domain name in usernames?'. If you 
set that to 'Only to avoid a clash' then you shouldn't hit this problem 
unless you try and duplicate the username.

> jwc> Or you could switch to Linux, which has a much longer maximum username length :-)
> 
> I wish!  This is a virtual server that I rent off my ISP so they get to
> call the shots on that one I'm afraid.

Sorry :D
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