[Dovecot] Plus sign in usernames: user+domain.com?

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Tue Feb 12 02:35:37 EET 2008


hoZt wrote:
> I am migrating from a cpanel server that has usernames in the format 
> "user+domain.com".   On the new server I am using the format 
> "user.domain.com" and it all works perfectly with dovecot / postfix.  Is 
> there any way that I can allow users to login either with the "." or "+" 
> delimiter?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!


Since the plus sign is used as the default delimeter for 
'plus-addressing', it should just work - but means you'd have to specify 
a different character to use for plus addressing.

The normal way to do virtual domains is to simply use the full email 
address.


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