[Kroupware] using username instead of firstname.lastname@domain for POP3/IMAP login

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thursday 19 June 2003 17:38, Henning Holtschneider wrote:
> I'm trying to use a manually entered username for IMAP/POP3 logins instead
> of the pre-defined firstname.lastname at domain scheme. I patched
> create_user.php as per the attached diff file. However, I still can only
> access a user's mailbox using firstname.lastname at domain as the username.
>
> I can log in using the username I chose but the IMAP mailbox will show up
> emtpy and if I log in via POP3, I get "-ERR [SYS/PERM] Unable to open
> maildrop".
>
> Is there any way to use a manually entered username (as in older versions
> of the Kolab server)? I have more than 500 users/mailboxes which I would
> like to migrate to Kolab and I cannot not change the old usernames.

It is certainly possibly,
but I cannot give you the details.

One solution is to continue to use the the older releases of the
server as they should be fine and check the changes to the new 
versions as recorded in the CVS. Probably is helps if
you read up a bit on Cyrus, ldap and the technical structure.

Martin: Can you give some additional references?
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