create email address length limit

[thor]

Hi,

I am new to direct admin and considering trying the direct admin panel. I like what I see. I need one question answered from anyone who knows this, or can test it out for me (probably most people reading this have a direct admin panel of their own).

The demo on the directadmin.com site does not allow one to create email addresses (for good reason) I need to know what is the maximum number of characters allowed in a new email address created via direct admin panel? (for Linux and FreeBSD, same or different?)

Will an email account name / address like this be created?

here.is.a.super.long.email.address.that.is.really.really.looong@whateverdomain.com

Not an alias that just directs to a different shorter account, but a unique account that has its own pop3 login info and storage.

I am using cPanel on Fedora Core 2 right now, and it uses exim, and the limit is at least 60 characters (maybe higher). But it goes through port 2082 and is extremely slow.

All of the cPanel access stuff is slow (sometimes a little slow, sometimes VERY slow), but the websites hosted on it are very fast. The direct admin demo via port 2222 seems as fast as a regular web pages. So I assume email account creation is pretty snappy too?

Oh, and is there a whitelist (self/auto and manual whitelist) feature (like boxtrapper in cPanel)? I saw something about SpamBlock or something being release for DA, but not sure if that has whitelist that a user can self authorize (challenge / response) if I want to turn it on. I know, some people hate C/R.

Thanks to any/all who reply!

 

[jmstacey]

I'm not sure what the exact limit is, but the example you provided seemed to go in without any problems...

Mind if I ask why do you need an email address that long?

There are white and blacklists aswell
I dont' think it's on a per user basis though.

 

[thor]

Thanks for the reply!

A client of mine has some long email addresses and I know some panels / set ups restrict the length (like FreeBSD by itself only allows 16 char user names and those are also the email addresses - depending upon your set up)

Did you send a test email to that account to after creating it, or just created it?

Mind if I ask how long it took for the email account to create from when you hit "go"? Like I said, on cPanel it is slow. Anywhere from 10 seconds, up to 45 seconds, depending upon??? server load? (yet normal front end web pages on the site are still very fast at the same time as the stuff in the cPanel admin is not)

So whitelists are not C/R created, like everything that is not already whitelisted gets a "Please reply to this email to show your a human and not spam"? That would be a nice optional setting, maybe. But some whitelisting is better than none.

Thanks again jmstacey!

 

[nobaloney]

DirectAdmin email names are NOT system usernames. System usernames are limited in both BSD and in Linux.

DirectAdmin runs quickly because it's a statically compiled C++ program; it's NOT based on scripts.

Jeff