Failed to save mailbox

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#1 Thu, 11/15/2007 - 23:38
HorNET

Failed to save mailbox

Hi all, i'm complete newbie here. And here's my problem. If anyone help, i'll be glad. On my FreeBSD 6.2 box, i have domains restored from a backup. When i try to add a new mailbox user, i get an error as below:

Failed to save mailbox : The username user@domainname.com is longer that the maximum allowed on this system (16 characters)

I couldn't resolve the issue. My configuration is: FreeBSD 6.2 i386 Webmin 1.380 Usermin 1.300 Virtualmin GPL 3.48, master admin mode

P.S: i don't have a problem about the issue on my old Fedora5 box (which i got backups on) with the same configuration above.

Thank you.

Fri, 11/16/2007 - 09:02
Joe
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FreeBSD has a built-in limit of 16 characters for usernames. Nothing we can do about that...though you could rebuild parts of FreeBSD to permit longer usernames. It's been discussed here in the forums a couple of times, along with the steps for rebuilding with long username support.

The other option would be to restore your users under a different (shorter) name. It pretty much rules out user@domain.tld style usernames, because almost everything will be too long...so you'll have to get a bit more creative. Something like "joe.virt" or similar.

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