Re: [Exim] Long usernames

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Author: Cherubini Enrico
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim
Subject: Re: [Exim] Long usernames
Ciao,
Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 08:03:10PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:

> What you are remembering is a feature to cope with *short* user names,
> not long ones. Exim has no limit on user names. Some operating systems
> check only the first n (usually n=8) characters of usernames, so that
> tweedledum and tweedledee appear to be the same. Exim has an option
> (max_user_name_length) which says "if a local part is longer than n
> characters, then it cannot be a user name".

ok...this was the option I was alking about..but where is this option ?
jenny:~/tmp/exim-2.05:$ find . -name '*' -type f | xargs grep -i
'max_user_name_length'
jenny:~/tmp/exim-2.05:$

I can't find that...where should I put it ? Recomplie sources ? in exim.conf
?

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