Here's where you can talk about the little beta-test we're doing of a new mail authentication backend that lets you use the address of a mailbox instead of its username. Which is especially nice for those crazy m4854574 ones!

See my recent post to the http://dreamhoststatus.com/ blog for a wee bit more info!

Post good/bad experiences here! I'll keep an eye on this here forum!


nate

Works for me. Does this mean we'll be able to point to 'mail.dreamhost.com' and 'webmail.dreamhost.com' in order to get our mail and login via this method? The reason I ask is that this would help fix the SSL certificate issue in both the browser and in Mail.app on OS X.

No, the cert stuff is unrelated! Except, yeah, you can go to webmail.dreamhost.com (that's always worked).


nate.

Doesn't work for me. Neither IMAP nor SMTP accept my username and password.

FWIW, I switched back and forth between the name and mbox #. It always worked when I switched back. I also verified that webmail is working.

SMTP is working for me.
If you're using Apple's mail it will prompt you for your password after the change (even if you have it saved).

Btw, thanks for the feature :-)

wootindustries.com

Doesn't work for me - neither POP nor SMTP.

Send me a private message with the settings you're using!


nate

Just did a quick check on one IMAP account with an Mxxxxxxx address and that seemed to work okay (using TBird on XP). Good show Nate.

I was just going to bed and the cocoa has gone cold now. Ah well it is a sacrifice in the name of progress.


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it's working in outlook 2003 with pop3. Thanks for the feature. I've been missing this.

I wanna be a tester.......m6165224

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Just switch m6165224 to you@yourdomain.com and you've tested the feature. It's active for everyone.

wootindustries.com

Works for me with IMAP and POP

Work for me SMTP, POP and IMAP.

I used the day all and no had problem some

Works for me!

oh! This is so awesome! It's working for me for both pop and imap! I'm hosted on Murdoc by the way.

Hurray for dreamhost! hip hip hurray! It's great to see this finally implimented! Great job guys!



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It works with Mozilla Thunderbird and Round Cube Webmail (IMAP)

Yeah, just to be clear, it doesn't matter a lick what client you're using...

And it only works with the addresses that are tied to "real" mailboxes directly...it doesn't work with aliases or forwards!

If anybody has problems, you can private message me (the Send Private link at the top of all discussion forum pages) and let me know what settings aren't working for you.

Thanks a ton to everybody!

nate

Worked great for me. Both IMAP & POP in Outlook 2003 on Windoze XP. Took a second to realize I needed the entire email addy, not just username. EXCELLENT!!! THANK YOU!!!

Worked just fine - Linux using Kmail and in Google.

Oops - now it's not working any more.