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Hi all!
Migrating sites from 8.01/FreeBSD 6.x box -> 8.10/FreeBSD 6.x box. Method used by client is: backup a site fully, move the backup file (manually) to the new box, restore the backup, correct some paths etc, end he's good to go.
Except, he isn't.
On the new box, some mail accounts are accessed as "username" whereas others require 'username@domain'. On the "old" box the format was consistent, access to email was "username"
He has dozens of users scattered around several countries, in a number of different timezones so instructing them to/how_to change their PC settings if their username format has changed would be a HUGE problem.
Can anyone point me to how to unify this so that the "old" format is restored (i.e. just plain old "username") please? Any and all suggestions would be most welcome and greatly appreciated.
Regards & TIA,
-Porky
[EDIT]
I think this issue is resolved.
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On the source box in server-wide mail settings "allow short & full mailnames" was the selected policy. On the target box I discovered that "allow only full names" was selected. So, something about the restored mailnames permitted short/long names, but newly created accounts adhered to the target machine policy, thus a hybrid of long or short names appeared to be possible on "legacy" accounts, but new accounts would permit only long format.
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Migrating sites from 8.01/FreeBSD 6.x box -> 8.10/FreeBSD 6.x box. Method used by client is: backup a site fully, move the backup file (manually) to the new box, restore the backup, correct some paths etc, end he's good to go.
Except, he isn't.
On the new box, some mail accounts are accessed as "username" whereas others require 'username@domain'. On the "old" box the format was consistent, access to email was "username"
He has dozens of users scattered around several countries, in a number of different timezones so instructing them to/how_to change their PC settings if their username format has changed would be a HUGE problem.
Can anyone point me to how to unify this so that the "old" format is restored (i.e. just plain old "username") please? Any and all suggestions would be most welcome and greatly appreciated.
Regards & TIA,
-Porky
[EDIT]
I think this issue is resolved.
----------------------
On the source box in server-wide mail settings "allow short & full mailnames" was the selected policy. On the target box I discovered that "allow only full names" was selected. So, something about the restored mailnames permitted short/long names, but newly created accounts adhered to the target machine policy, thus a hybrid of long or short names appeared to be possible on "legacy" accounts, but new accounts would permit only long format.
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