[Dovecot] Strip backslash from usernames

[Dominic Malolepszy]

On 13/09/12 10:38, Daniel Parthey wrote:
> Dominic Malolepszy wrote:
>> Is there a way to strip a backslash if it exists at the start of
>> username like \user at example.com within the Dovecot LDA? I am using
>> Dovecot 2.1.9 with a LDAP backend, so I cannot do any sort of SQL
>> trickery.
>
> Address rewriting should be done in the MTA.
> I see no point why this should be done in the LDA?
>
> Regards
> Daniel
Agreed, I was just hoping I would not have to poke around the existing 
Sendmail setup we have here, in the end it turned out the backslashes 
were leftover legacy crud in some of the LDAP entries that actually did 
nothing.