I take everything I said back. It seems now to work in rc2. Use the auth_username_format and set it to %Lu and it works for passwd as well as SQL. No patch required. Wish I was paying attention when that was changed...
-- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Graves Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:23 PM To: 'Jeff Graves'; dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] bug/feature
Oops. That one was for 0.99.x series. This one was what I used for 1.x
-- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Graves Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:22 PM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] bug/feature
I have always had a similar problem. Our's though is that we authenticate using SFU and nis. So in addition to the folder needing to be lowercase, the username has to be as well. It hasn't be discussed in a while but Timo mentioned that the %L wouldn't work for username's. To workaround it, I used this patch. However, I have no idea how it works with other authentication methods as we use passwd and I haven't tested it since test69 so it probably needs tweaking.
-- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Johannes Berg Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:35 PM To: Paul Blankenship Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] bug/feature
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 09:13 -0700, Paul Blankenship wrote:
I don't know if this has been mentioned here or even thought of in the grand scheme of things and I'm just sending a one time email about it "just in case" I recently swapped my server around and I'm using dovecot now....LOVE it! Could use a bit more intuitive error messages, but otherwise, it's great! But there is one flaw that I've run into with my users. Case sensitivity.
I think you can lower-case the name just about anywhere, e.g. default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%Lu/.mail instead of default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/.mail
See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/variables.txt (on debian systems, otherwise just look for variables.txt)
johannes