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Domain in username
\ Lionel Pinkhard (22 Jan 2008)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (22 Jan 2008)

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Subject:	Re: Domain in username
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	(Wietse Venema)
Date:	22 Jan 2008

Lionel Pinkhard:
> Hi,
>
> We are attempting to migrate 653 mailboxes from a Sendmail server to a
> new Postfix server. However, we would like to do this in the simplest
> way possible, any recommendations on this would be appreciated. We would
> need to move the mailboxes, import the users and passwords (passwords
> are encrypted), at the moment I'm thinking that writing a script to
> parse the /etc/passwd file and insert the info into the MySQL database
> (we are using Postfix with MySQL, Courier-IMAP, etc), this would
> obviously leave the passwords in encrypted form (and leaving the
> clear-text version of the password blank), but would the encrypted forms
> of Sendmail and Postfix be compatible?

Postfix does not use passwords. Passwords are used by UNIX
authentication software, and by authentication software in libsasl,
in POP servers or IMAP servers.

> Currently, our workstations' mail clients are configured as follows
> (assuming e-mail address of fred) for Sendmail:
>
> Incoming mail server: pop.domain.com
> Outgoing mail server: smtp.domain.com
> Username: fred
> Password: fredspassword

With delivery to UNIX system accounts, Postfix requires the same
form: User names are not email addresses.

Wietse