On Oct 18, 1:42 pm, OBATA Akio <o...@lins.jp> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:06:23 -0500
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> Sam <s...@email-scan.com> wrote:
> > Der Morris writes:
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> > > Hi Folks,
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> > > here's my problem:
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> > > I am running a mail server hosting several domains. Each domain has it's
> > > "own" mail server. E.g. imap.domain1.com imap.domain2.com.
>
> > > Now it is always the same server answering the call. In order to log in, my
> > > users need to use a login name as u...@domain1.com for Cyrus to know who is
> > > it. But I wish they could log in as "user" without the @domain1.com part.
>
> > > Is there any way for Cyrus to find the domain part in the imap.domain1.com
> > > part?
>
> > No. Neither is there a way to do this with any IMAP server. This is not
> > possible due to some technical IMAP aspects.
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> > The closest possible thing is to assign a different IP address to each
> > hostname; some IMAP servers -- I do not know if this is possible with Cyrus
> > -- may be able to differentiate and supply the default domain based on the
> > IP address the client connected to.Cyrus can do such a behaviour.
> Default Cyrus' virtual domain support is IP adress base.
> virtualdomain: on
> You can select user id base.
> virtualdomain: userid


Sorry, i am a little unclear about this.

In my understanding, if i use virtualdomain: userid, then i have to use
username@domainname to login to the server except the default domain.
Would you mind explain more about the virtualdomain things more
clearly to us?

Thanks very much.

Wang,
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> > > Another problem is that I wish to block some users from logging in if they
> > > are not in "my" network. E.g. If you dial in with me you are free to check
> > > your mail, but if not you are not. On the other hand if you pay extra, you
> > > are welcome to check your mail from whereever you are. Oh, don't worry. I do
> > > this for a hobby. Not realy earning money in this way. ;-)
>
> > I do not believe that this is possible with Cyrus.Cyrus can do IP address based access control with tcp_wrapper.
>
> --
> OBATA Akio