[imp] configuring login using full email address, not just username?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Paul Fielding <paul at fielding.ca>:

> I've been running a horde/imp server for some time now with multiple  
> virtual domains enabled.  The two ways I have used for getting  
> people to log in are:
>
> 1) go to a virtual domain, such as webmail.domain.com
>   or
> 2) use the server pull-down menu to pick which virtual domain to use
>
> The problem with these approaches are that there's been a tendancy  
> for people to login with the wrong domain in both cases - either  
> accidentally grabbing the wrong domain from the pull-down list, or  
> using the wrong webmail domain name (people know my primary domain  
> and often think they should be using that even if I've told them  
> otherwise).
>
> Of course, the result is that the successfully login to horde and  
> can check their email, but they lose all their preferences/address  
> books, etc, since their usernames are stored in horde as  
> user at domain.com.

The "correct" way would have been to include the domain names with the  
user names in the first place. As a benefit this would allow the same  
user name used several times in different domains.

> What I would LIKE to do is to have only one web address for everyone  
> to go to for horde, but also get rid of the pull-down domain menu.   
> Instead, I'd like to have them login with their *full* email address  
> at the Username prompt, and have horde log them in appropriately,  
> with the correct domain after the @ based on what they put in the  
> Username field.
>
> I've done much searching for people doing this to no avail, and have  
> even dared to look through the code a bit (I'm no php programmer) to  
> see if I could figure it out.

What you want are the username_to/from_backend hooks.

Jan.

-- 
Do you need professional PHP or Horde consulting?
http://horde.org/consulting/