-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Michael Baird <mike at tc3net.com> To: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] strip domains Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:42:43 -0400 On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:17 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 09:48 -0400, Michael Baird wrote: > > I don't > > know why there is so much resistance to supporting functionality that is > > mostly a standard feature with other pop3/imap servers, and which also > > makes it *much* easier to migrate to dovecot from other solutions which > > support the domain stripping. > > I don't remember having seen all that much requests for this feature. > Perhaps lately several people have asked for it, but for the last 3 > years there haven't been all that many people. > > If I added a new setting for every single feature people asked, > dovecot-example.conf would be much larger than it currently is. And it > already is too large I think.I'm not asking for every new feature, just one that I think fits in with the current design of dovecot already and is a standard feature provided by other servers. You already provide the ability built in to "strip domains" per say, with the %u and %d values built in. To accomplish what I would like to do, I only need to be able to pass whatever combination of these values I wish to my passdb and userdb functions of choice. Regards Michael Baird