# Authenticate without domain part in email address

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With default settings, client must use full email address as username for POP3/IMAP/SMTP/webmail login, if you want to login without domain name part in email address, please follow below steps.

## Dovecot

Open Dovecot config file `/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf` (Linux/OpenBSD) or `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf` (FreeBSD), find parameter `auth_default_realm`, set the domain name you want to allow user to login without domain name part in email address. For example:

    auth_default_realm = mydomain.com

Restarting Dovecot is required. After restarted Dovecot, user logins as `john.smith` will be rewritten to `john.smith@mydomain.com` by Dovecot. This works for POP3/IMAP/SMTP services.

## Roundcube Webmail

Open Roundcube webmail config file `config/main.inc.php`, find parameter `$config['username_domain']`, list your domain name in this parameter. For example:

    // Automatically add this domain to user names for login
    // Only for IMAP servers that require full e-mail addresses for login
    // Specify an array with 'host' => 'domain' values to support multiple hosts
    // Supported replacement variables:
    // %h - user's IMAP hostname
    // %n - hostname ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])
    // %t - hostname without the first part
    // %d - domain (http hostname $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] without the first part)
    // %z - IMAP domain (IMAP hostname without the first part)
    // For example %n = mail.domain.tld, %t = domain.tld
    $config['username_domain'] = 'mydomain.com';

Restarting web server (Apache or php-fpm) is recommended.