[tpop3d-discuss] tpop3d and Netscape 4

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:30:34 +0000


On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:23:29AM +0100, Jens Kutilek wrote:
> Hi,
> a customer who uses Netscape 4 for mail (seems to be the only one) 
> complained about not being able to login to our server (several virtual 
> domains with exim and vmail-sql setup).
> Netscape seems to have some trouble using the @ in a username.
> We recently switched from gnupop3d to tpop3d. With gnupop3d you could 
> use localpart:domain for username with Netscape.

tpop3d allows you to use @, % or !. It is easy to add : by
editing the calls to strcspn on lines 349 and 481 of
auth_mysql.c. I cannot see any reason not to add these,
and will do so for the next version.

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