Am 17.12.2013 16:55, schrieb Charles Marcus:
On 2013-12-17 2:39 AM, Andreas Schulze <andreas.schulze@datev.de> wrote:
Am 16.12.2013 15:25 schrieb Charles Marcus:
auth_username_format = %Lu" This really should be the default... I disagree. That solve a symptom, not the problem.
As of rfc3522 a localpart*may* be used case sensitive or not. I suggest a switch "my_local_parts_are_casesensitive = yes/no" or "my_local_parts_are_caseINsensitive = no/yes" The name and default must be well selected and not break existing behaviour.
I think that's more transparent then changing an mostly unvisible setting.
Your system, your rules, however...
Just because you *can* do something doesn't mean you *should* do it - and just because something is RFC compliant doesn't mean you should always implement it that way.
There are very few compelling arguments for supporting identical usernames differing only by case. One is some kind of legacy (unix) environment where you already have a lot of these... but I can't readily think of another (good one)...
in fact it does always harm because users
there are enough writing their address uppercase while the server was never configured that way, there are enough writing FirstnameLastname@domain.tld and you can hardly find a normal person who accepts that writing a message to "YOU@domain.tld" goes to a different person than "you@domain.tld" or bounce in one of the cases