[Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?

[Jethro R Binks]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Dan Hollis wrote:

> Is it possible for dovecot to strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
> 
> We have a lot of dumb customers who try logging in to pop3 with crap 
> like UsERNAmE and bla at nonexistentdomain.com. All our usernames are 
> lowercase and we have no realms. Trying to get hundreds of customers to 
> fix this is hard and is a significant and costly support burden.
> 
> It would be nice if dovecot could handle this in some way.

One solution would be to run an POP/IMAP proxy - perdition is capable of 
doing this, for example.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK