Re: [webmin-l] Virtualmin Email setups

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 3/Oct/2006 10:02 John Hinton wrote ..
> If I turn on using the domain name as a part of a new email user 
> account, entering newuser yields newuser.domainname, and 
> ne...@do... works at the moment of creation... all good.
> 
> If I turn off using the domain name as a part of a new email user 
> account and then enter newuser.domainname as the user account, upon a 
> revisit to that user's settings shows newuser as the email address and
> newuser.domainname as the user account, but "Primary email address 
> enabled" is set to 'off' in spite of seeing that it is 'on' during the
> account creation.

So you added the .domainname manually? Hmm, that could be confusing
Virtualmin ..

> When moving new accounts onto a system, sometimes (rarely) we need to 
> use the usernames as they exist on the old host server, so we don't have
> to help the new client with changing their email clients. Otherwise, I'd
> leave this set to use the domainname as a part of the username all the
> time.
> 
> It seems like I keep getting stung with not remembering to go back into
> each new user account to enable the primary email address when doing a
> mix of these accounts.
> 
> After creating an address like user.domainname, if I try to create the
> alias us...@do..., it says one already exist, but it can't 
> receive mail.
> 
> It seems to me like what should be a 'manual' mode is sort of 
> semi-automated here and to me not very logical.
> 
> Would this be considered a bug or a 'feature'? :)

This sounds like a (subtle) bug .. when backing up users, their full username
is not included in the backup, so if you restore on a different system it
will re-create the users with full usernames based on the new system's
template settings.

Why not just simply temporarily change the setting on the target machine to
include the domain name in the username, do the restore, then change it back
if you like?

 - Jamie