On Wednesday 26 November 2003 7:30 am in comp.sys.sun.admin Dusan wrote:

>
> We have a oldmail server on the linux mandrake which is administered
> not by us but by small admin-company. The hardware is old. We have
> bought a new machine (mailnew) and want to use solaris 9 there as an
> os. I think that sol9 together with postfix support long name
> conventions. Isn't that true.

User login name, password, and group names are all limited to 8 chars.
Aliases are not limited.
Give each user a short account name and a long alias.

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