[30743] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew McNamara)
Tue Aug 29 23:28:11 2000
To: Bennett Todd <bet@rahul.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:43:08 EDT."
<20000829224308.D16883@oven.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:26:20 +1100
From: Andrew McNamara <andrewm@connect.com.au>
Message-Id: <20000830032620.D6A76285D6@wawura.off.connect.com.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> > Name-based virtual hosting does not work in many, MANY cases.
>>
>> And it doesn't work for POP3 at all.
>
>It can. Just give your users POP logins of the form
>user@domain.name.
Just bear in mind the restriction in the POP3 RFC (1725) that limits
arguments to commands to 40 characters.
Also, if you have a lot of clients using legacy software, you will find
that some old versions of software won't allow usernames including an
'@' character, and other software enforces length limits of less than
40 characters.
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Andrew McNamara (System Architect)
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