[Dovecot] Case sensitive nightmare

[Erik Petersen]

On 12/11/05 7:39 PM, "John Peacock" <jpeacock at rowman.com> wrote:

> Erik Petersen wrote:
>> It would seem to me that the queries above would fail for the different
>> variations of the name but they don¹t seem to.
> 
> Searches in MySQL are not case sensitive:
> 
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/case-sensitivity.html
> 

True, WHERE 'FOO' like 'foo' is a match but my user_query is WHERE username
= '%u' 

> so you can use the information in doc/variables.txt to decide whether you want
> to treat user names as UPPPER or lower case by default.

I'm using the binary install on Fedora Core 4 -- yum install dovecot --
(0.99.14). I don't see a variables.txt file in the source tarball. I guess I
should build from 1.0 alpha source?

Thanks