[Dovecot] Problem with different case logins

Chris Wakelin c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
Wed Nov 9 14:46:43 EET 2005


Presumably he meant "%Lu"!

>From docs/variables.txt :-

The variables are:

...

 %l - local IP address

...

You can apply a modifiers for each variable (eg. %Lp = pop3):

 %L - lowercase

...

Chris

Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> On Nov/09, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> 
> 
>>>/var/lib/dovecot/postoffice/%lu
>>
>>	This has the nasty effect of allowing logins, but not finding any
>>mail at all in the mailboxes (nor the lower case ones neither the upper
>>case ones). Are you sure it should work?
> 
> 
> 	Expanding on this: I've found that what it did was create the
> directory /var/lib/dovecot/postoffice/127.0.0.1u, and use it as mailbox
> holder.
> 


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