Using e-mail address as user name for SMTP and POP3

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Published on 2011-01-11T18:49:32Z Indexed on 2011/01/11 20:56 UTC
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I have a exim4 setup as SMTP. My user naming schema is to name all mail users for this server as m001, m002, m003, ... and then redirect to a real e-mail address with virtual domains.

How can I allow my users to authenticate with exim to send mail using either their system user name (m001) or the email address ([email protected])?

User login information for m001 are stored in linux system files (passwd, shadow). They are linked thru entries in a virtual address table for each domain that this server can serve:

# /etc/exim4/virtual/example.com
m001: [email protected]
m002: [email protected]
m003: [email protected]

The same can be applied to qpopper ?

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