Suffice it to say
  that no matter what you do
or how elaborate your design Ken,
  your successor will change it.

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors

-----Original Message-----
From: Born, Ken [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

Greetings,
I am having trouble determining how to setup the naming conventions for my
users email on the HP3000.
My Goal for user email naming convention would be [log in to unmask]
where BORN is USER-ID and 201 is DEPARTMENT-ID.

To establish user uniqueness in my database is composed of a USER-ID and
DEPARTMENT-ID.  The data in USER-ID can be 1 to 6 characters long and can
contain all numbers.  DEPARTMENT-ID contains all numbers.

Since USER-ID can contain all numbers, I cannot create a newuser under MPE
because it would violate the "First character needs to be alphabetic" rule.


Since DEPARTMENT-ID contains only numbers, I cannot create a new account
under MPE because it would violate the "First character needs to be
alphabetic" rule.

So, I was wondering two things:
First, can I create a user email under UNIX where I could side step the
above restrictions?  or
Second, can I somehow use aliases to side step the above like BORN.201 is
actually  a username that works with the above restrictions?

I like to keep everything in the SENDMAIL account and not create hundreds of
separate department accounts.

Thanks...

SET NAME:
   USERS,MANUAL

      ITEMS:
         USER-NO,              I2            <<KEY ITEM>>
         USER-ID,              U6
         USER-NAME,            U20
         PASSWORD,             X8
         LOCATTR,              I2
         DEPARTMENT-ID,        K1