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Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting

  • From: Andrew McNamara
  • Date: Tue Aug 29 23:28:50 2000 
>> > Name-based virtual hosting does not work in many, MANY cases.
>>
>> And it doesn't work for POP3 at all.
>
>It can. Just give your users POP logins of the form
>[email protected]

Just bear in mind the restriction in the POP3 RFC (1725) that limits
arguments to commands to 40 characters.

Also, if you have a lot of clients using legacy software, you will find
that some old versions of software won't allow usernames including an
'@' character, and other software enforces length limits of less than
40 characters.

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Andrew McNamara (System Architect)

connect.com.au Pty Ltd
Lvl 3, 213 Miller St, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9409 2117, Fax: +61 2 9409 2111