On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 09:48 -0400, Michael Baird wrote:
I don't know why there is so much resistance to supporting functionality that is mostly a standard feature with other pop3/imap servers, and which also makes it *much* easier to migrate to dovecot from other solutions which support the domain stripping.
I don't remember having seen all that much requests for this feature. Perhaps lately several people have asked for it, but for the last 3 years there haven't been all that many people.
If I added a new setting for every single feature people asked, dovecot-example.conf would be much larger than it currently is. And it already is too large I think.
So instead of adding lots of special case settings, I prefer to add few settings that can be useful for other cases as well. With that in mind, how about a setting something like this:
# Username formatting before it's looked up from databases. You can use # the standard variables here, eg. %Lu would lowercase the username or # %n would drop away the domain if it was given. This translation is # done after auth_username_translation changes. #auth_username_format =