Re: multiple email address with same user?

What if I have company 1 with three people:
jack
jill
jim

Through a custom interface, they can sign in and see all the email 
addresses for their domain, widgets1.com.

They want an email address for each of them with their first names:
jack@xxxxxxxxxxx
username:jack
jill@xxxxxxxxxxx
username:jill
jim@xxxxxxxxxxx
username:jim

now company 2 has three people as well in their company, widgets2:
John,
Joanie
jim

they can set up john and joanie, but when they go to set up jim, that 
name is in use for another domain (widgets1)

I can understand telling someone they cannot have the same nome as 
someone else in THEIR domain, but how do you tell someone they cannot 
have the name jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx because someone in another domain on 
the server already has the name Jim?

Suppose you were an isp and had 100's of domains, what would you do?
I tried making the pop3 login name(this seems to be the one that HAS to 
be unique) the same as their email address, but it won't accept the @ 
sign.

sorry I'm so dense- I'm coming from a mail server that allowed me to 
set up a user for domain1, and the same user for domain2 so I'm a 
little stumped :)

Thanks for the help!

Jim


On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:32:38 -0800, Eric Yang wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> I think you are on the right track, and Ken's suggestion is even better.
> Simply, specify unique POP3 mailbox names and
> associate jim@xxxxxxx to the correct POP3 names, then you
> will be fine.
> 
> regards,
> Eric
> 
> On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 11:03 PM, Jim Sheffer wrote:
> 
>> Ok, I'm getting ready to begin setting up the email addresses.
>> 
>> Lets say I have 3 domains to keep it simple
>> I want jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx to go to me
>> another Jim wants jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx to go to him
>> 
>> How can I do this?
>> 
>> If I use jim1 and jim2 (which means that when jim3 comes along I have
>> to search ALL the accounts to see how many jim's there are) then their
>> address shows as jim1 <jim1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> or if I use jim%blueworld.com as the user name and jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx as
>> the email address, then the address looks like jim%blueworld.com
>> <jim%blueworld.com>
>> 
>> what I need is for the address to look like
>> jim <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> jim <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks all!
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:59:06 -0800, Marc Kaiwi wrote:
>>> No, I have identical names with different domains but the pop account
>>> user must be different so you would have:
>>> 
>>> User Jim1 = POP account: jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> User Jim2 = POP account: jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> 
>>> Actually I use:
>>> User jim%blueworld.com = POP account: jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> User jim%lassostudio.com = POP account: jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> 
>>> hope this helps...
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 10:52  AM, Jim Sheffer wrote:
>>> 
>>>> We are getting ready to impliment post.Office as our new list and email
>>>> server.
>>>> I just read this somewhere and was hoping it isn't true...
>>>> "Post.Office can support multiple domains, but user names must be
>>>> unique across the domains in order for this feature to work properly "
>>>> 
>>>> Does this mean I cannot have jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx & jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> 
>>>> Jim
>>>> 
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