[Dovecot] configure lmtp to deliver to email addresses case insensitively

Tue Dec 17 00:53:56 EET 2013

Am 16.12.13 22:55 schrieb Charles Marcus:
> On 2013-12-16 4:32 PM, Adrian Zaugg <adi at ente.limmat.ch> wrote:
>> But the main effect and disadvantage is, that authenticating logins with
>> wrongly cased usernames do also succeed, which I actually do not like to
>> happen.
> 
> Trying very hard to understand why this would be a problem.
On *nix hosts login names are always case sensitive. Why should this
change with the same login name for eMails when it doesn't for for ssh,
FTP, Webserver-Login, Database-Login ... ? It's nicer if a system acts
consistent.

Regards, Adrian.