[Dovecot] [Bug] Case sensitive usernames and variables

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 5 May 2010, Неворотин Вадим wrote:

> corretly and save all messages to lowercase username mailbox. No problem,
> add L:
>
> mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%Lu/
>
> Then all works good. But I has also such namespace configuration:
>
> namespace shared {
> separator = /
> prefix = &BCAEMARBBEEESwQ7BDoEOA-/%%u/
> location = maildir:/var/mail/%%u:INDEX=/var/mail/%u/shared/%%u
> subscriptions = no
> list = children
> }
>
> And here I can't replace %u with %Lu, because dovecot write to dovecot.log:
>
> IMAP(malamut): Error: Namespace '&BCAEMARBBEEESwQ7BDoEOA-/%Lu/': shared:
> Shared namespace prefix contains unknown variables
>

First:
Is it a typo or did you replaced %%u by %Lu ? Note the different number of 
%'s.

Second:
You can have passdb return set/overwrite "user", just return the 
"normalized" variant of the username as "user" field:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields

Regards,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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