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Re: Username same as existing email address

From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Sunday, February 9, 2003
Time: 12:05:32 pm

Optigold wrote:

> There are drawbacks to this resolution.
>
> 1. The FileMaker interface does not automatically put the @domain.com
> on.
> 2. Users will now have to enter @domain.com in the web interface to
> gain access and pay their bill. We're try to keep this easy for our
> users, which in turn makes it easy for us.
> 3. The list of allowed characters prohibits the use of @ and . So now
> I have to allow these characters, so they can me used anywhere in the
> username. i.e., my.username@domain.com or i.m@home@domain.com
>
> I think it would be much easier if when the account is initially
> created, that Optigold search for email addresses that exist using the
> same username.

The problem with that is everyone that is using realms (specifically a
different realm for logins and emails), that they no longer can have a login
is "shawn" and an email of "shawn@digitalpoint.com" (if digitalpoint.com was
the customers domain for example).

- Shawn

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Shawn D. Hogan
President, Digital Point Solutions
http://www.digitalpoint.com
(858) 452-3696


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