Importing users with dots

[Priyantha Bleeker]

Hi,

I am trying to import users to my new installed opensource zimbra installation.
The users are like this:

address.domain.tld

And this is the way it should stay for our current users.
All the users has set this already in their mail cliënts and it is not really the idea to change this(more than 800 users).

Is there a possibility to do this ?

[jholder]

What's the address section of your domain name?

[Priyantha Bleeker]

Well it is like this.

The mail adres is this: address@domain.tld
But the user is: address.domain.tld
That's how it is right now, and it should stay that way if it is possible.

[jholder]

Well it is like this.

The mail adres is this: address@domain.tld
But the user is: address.domain.tld
That's how it is right now, and it should stay that way if it is possible.

So just so I understand correctly, when you give out e-mail addresses to people, the address you give out is:

myname@myname.domain.com ?

[Priyantha Bleeker]

So just so I understand correctly, when you give out e-mail addresses to people, the address you give out is:

myname@myname.domain.com ?

No, it is like myname@myname.com
but the username to log in is myname.myname.com

[jholder]

No, it is like myname@myname.com
but the username to log in is myname.myname.com

Will you be hosting multiple domains, or just one?

[Priyantha Bleeker]

I will host multiple domains
I think around 15 a 20 or something.

[jholder]

Yeah, I think you're going to have to use username@domain.com

It's because that's how LDAP parses out the username/container.

[Priyantha Bleeker]

mmm that's bad

That means that we have to tell the users (like 800) to change their e-mail client settings(and no they are not really computer nerds ).

There is not a possibility to hack it somehow, so it is possible to use the users with dots instead of 'at's(@)'.

[Priyantha Bleeker]

Their is no other possibility to import the users in the way they are right now ?
So we have to use the 'new-style' user names ?