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I've been building an OpenIndiana server to replace our existing Linux web server. OpenIndiana is the open source continuation of OpenSolaris, which Oracle tried to kill off shortly after acquiring Sun. I've always - since the 70's - wanted to run a real Unix server. I have the server almost built, and everything so far is working great. Glory be to our holy God!
I was able to compile and install uw-imap without any real difficulty. However last night, when I was testing the email, I went to add another user using the GUI tool, since I'm not that familiar with all of the Solaris command line tools.
It was then that I discovered that it would only let me add a user with no more than eight characters. In searching the net, I found a post where it said that if I added the user via the command line, it would complain about it being more than eight characters, but would go ahead and add it anyway.
The users that have names longer than eight characters would only ever log into the system to check their mail via either SquirrelMail, or the mail client on their workstations. It's not like they'd ever actually log into the system itself.
So, my big question is, from a uw-imap perspective, have you had people post to the list in the reasonably recent past that have had problems using uw-imap with long user names on Unix systems? Or do any of you have any experience in using long user names on Unix systems for email using uw-imap?
I'd just like to know if am I likely to run into problems if I use the command line tool to add user names longer than eight characters, or if I'm reasonably safe continuing with this endeavor.
Any advice or experience shared in this area would be greatly appreciated.
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