Re: [Dovecot] dovecot auth is case insensitive, but fs is sensitive :)

Noel Butler noel.butler@ausics.net writes:

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:41 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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Dovecot auth isn't case-insensitive. But MySQL is, and I guess you're
using it? There are several different ways around it.

Which is not a problem since most (all) MTA's normally treat user@ as case insensitive.

But the username in the authentication db is completely independent of any localpart that might be used to deliver to a mailbox - access to which is authenticated by providing creds for that username.

I don't see how the fact that MTAs may or may not consider localparts to be case-sensitive has any bearing on the case-sensitivity of usernames stored in the authentication database.