E-mail problems, username\adress

Hello.

I use ISPConfig on my web server.
I got about 400 e-mail adresses there (most of them under one domain).

All has worked perfect, but I got som feedback from users now that makes me think there is a problem.

Some user witch has e-mail adress: [email protected] and username tommy recives mails ment for [email protected] and username tommyt.

Any ideas?.

 

Thank you till.

I see in virtusertable that some users have the same username bot not same e-mail adress.
I use dovecot.

I gusess this is what messes tings up.
But I thought ISPConfig didn`t allow duplicate usernames.

What happend?

 

Ok.

So:

[email protected] johnj
[email protected] johnj
[email protected] johnj
[email protected] johnj

is no problem.

But

[email protected] johnj
[email protected] johnj
[email protected] johnny
[email protected] johnny

is a problem.

I also see that som adresses remain in virtusertable that is not in use, is it safe to just delete these from the file manualy?.

When a user wants to thange his adress I just click on the user and change the adress.
Should I delete the user and make a new one?.
As it seems that the old adress remain in virtusertable if I do it the easy way.

I see that I actualy have som duplicate adresses as in exmple 2.

 

The duplicate e-mail adress is only in virtusertable, not in ISPConfig.

Should I just delete it directly from virtusertable and save the file?.
Can I use any txt editor for this?.

And did I understand you right, dulicate usernames is no problem, only e-mail adresses?.

 

Hmm....

Now I have deleted the users, checked that there are no records left in database and virtusertable.

I created user: johnm e-mail: [email protected]
And user: john e-mail: [email protected]

The mail system the directs e-mails for [email protected] and [email protected] to user john.

I use TPS FC4 in your how to.
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_fedora_core_4
With postfix and dovecot.

I see that ISPConfig does not allow duplicate usernames.

Is it a bug that this goes wrong.

Shoud it be impossible to add a user with username john when the e-mail adress [email protected] exists?.

 

That's correct. That's why there is a user prefix in ISPConfig by default so that something like this doesn't happen.

 

Ahhh

So the problem is that I have taken away the user prefix like "web16".

I didn`t realize that this could cause severe problems like this.

What should I do......

 

Put the domain prefix back.

Why dont you use alias instead diferent accounts? if the user is the same you can use just one user and add all the needed alias.

 

The user is not the same one, but with 400+ users it might happen that username and e-mail adresses cross.

Maybe an idea to implement a check for this in future versions of ISPConfig?.
So that if user: johnm e-mail: [email protected] exists and I try to add user: john e-mail: [email protected] I get an error message explaining this....

I also have several domains on my server, does users on different domains interfear with each other, or are they seperate?.

And if I use e-mail alias, will I then get a message if a e-mail adress or alias already exists.

I could check all users now for crossing between e-mail adresses and usernames manualy, and put a domain prefix back, guess that it will be the solution?.

 

Its illogical to repeat usernames. The best way to do it is to put "[DOMAIN]." as user prefix so the usernames will be "domain.user".

I dont know if ISPCofnig check aliases, till?, enlight us

 

ISPConfig doesn't check /etc/aliases, but it checks existing usernames.

 

Thanks Falko i believed so..

 

Ok.

Then I guess it`s not a good idea to use aliases in domins with wery many users, could be a mess.

Is there any plans for Implementing check for aliases and crossing usernames and e-mail adresses falco?.

 

Great!