Netscape Messenger 4.8 and dovecot

[ccto]

We have a company customer who are running Netscape Messenger 4.8 (quite old indeed), and found fail to authenicate against dovecot pop3 server.

Finding: Netscape will truncate the username from emailuser@domain.com to emailuser , and then pass it to dovecot pop3 server. Of course, it fails to login.

When I look at vm-pop3d, it supports the following username format authenication -
emailuser@domain.com
emailuser_domain.com or
emailuser:domain.com

Ref.: http://www.reedmedia.net/software/virtualmail-pop3d/ (then search for Netscape)

Do you have any workaround, or alternative?

Thank you very much.

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Scanning through the default dovecot.conf, I found# Username character translations before it's looked up from databases. The
# value contains series of from -> to characters. For example "#@/@" means
# that '#' and '/' characters are translated to '@'.
#auth_username_translation =So try settingauth_username_translation=:@in your dovecot.conf.

Then the login format would be user:domain.com.

John

[toml]

auth_username_translation works fine, I have some clients using the % that needed to be translated.

I also had to hack the exim.pl to allow them to send emails with the % instead of the @ as well.