[Dovecot] bug/feature

[Jeff Graves]

I have always had a similar problem. Our's though is that we authenticate
using SFU and nis. So in addition to the folder needing to be lowercase, the
username has to be as well. It hasn't be discussed in a while but Timo
mentioned that the %L wouldn't work for username's. To workaround it, I used
this patch. However, I have no idea how it works with other authentication
methods as we use passwd and I haven't tested it since test69 so it probably
needs tweaking.

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Jeff Graves, MCSA
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-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On
Behalf Of Johannes Berg
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:35 PM
To: Paul Blankenship
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] bug/feature


On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 09:13 -0700, Paul Blankenship wrote:
> 	I don't know if this has been mentioned here or even thought of in 
> the
> grand scheme of things and I'm just sending a one time email about it 
> "just in case"
> 	I recently swapped my server around and I'm using dovecot
now....LOVE 
> it!  Could use a bit more intuitive error messages, but otherwise, it's 
> great!
> 	But there is one flaw that I've run into with my users.  Case 
> sensitivity.

I think you can lower-case the name just about anywhere, e.g.
default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%Lu/.mail instead of default_mail_env =
maildir:/home/%u/.mail

See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/variables.txt (on debian systems,
otherwise just look for variables.txt)

johannes
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