Re: Adding username to incoming mail server
Michael Lefevre <[email protected]>
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In article <[email protected]>, Christopher Jahn wrote: > And it came to pass that no_name wrote: [snip] > >> That is what I mean - <username>.mail.incoming.com. I'm >> not the sysadmin for the mail server, I just install the >> software ;) They are planning to incorporate the username >> into the user's incoming mail server setting. >> >> We have 65,000 users. Is there a way to do this when the >> user sets up the profile for the first time? Outlook can >> do it using the *.prf file by using >> %username%.mail.incoming.com. I'm looking for something >> similar for NS7. > > So what you are saying is that your sysadmin wants to setup > 65,000 different servers? I find that very hard to beleive. 65,000 different names doesn't mean 65,000 different servers. I guess the sysadmin is going to set up several servers (could even be just one for the moment), and give them 65,000 different names. While rather unusual, it's quite believable. means the admin can change the physical server for a user's email without the user having to change their server setting, and without having to have some proxy/front-end arrangement to sit between the user and the server that contains the email. (which would be the more usual things to do - either all users access "mail.example.com", and mail.example.com is actually a bunch of servers that work out where the user's mail is really located, and go and fetch it when the user connects; or there are servers called mail1, mail2 and mail3, and the users are told which server is the right one for them, and may have to change their settings if it becomes necessary to move mail accounts between machines) getting back to the question, I don't think there's any way of getting Mozilla itself to interpret variables in these settings, so the approach would have to be some kind of script which worked out the server name at install time. CCK is in the rather early stages of development, but might be worth a look - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/ -- Michael