vaibhav samant wrote:
Hi All,
I am creating a mail server [FC2+Sendmail] where I need username of the type first.second@foo.com.
I am not able to add users to the system with a "dot" in their name.
How can I do this. Pls help.
Thank you. Vai
where are you going to store the mail spool files ? what is the MDA you are planning to use ?
Are the email users going to be system users ? and are you going to store the mails in the standard /var/spool/ mail ?
Look at creating a setup with Sendmail+Cyrus. The latest cyrus has the "dot" support and also supports virtual domains. Also in case the mail server needs good performance and security is a matter for you but your newbie to sendmail then I would recommend you to use postfix. Its secure and faster than sendmail.