Re: [Dovecot] Case of %n (feauture request)

Doesn't ".../%d/%Ln" do what you want? See doc/variables.txt.

Best Wishes, Chris

Alexander Shikoff wrote:

Hello,

I'm using dovecot not for a long time but I've newer seen most powerful and handy POP3/IMAP server. Thank Timo for dovecot; thank community for help!

I would like to notice that %n is case-sensitive: it always stores user part of login without case conversions. As a result there are some inconveniences with virtual user organization, for example:

password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE login = '%u' user_query = SELECT "mbox:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INDEX=MEMORY" AS mail, 101 AS uid, 101 AS gid FROM users WHERE login = '%u'

In this example authentication works perfectly but user can not access it's mailbox because all mailbox names are lower-case.

I think it would be more handy to make %d, %n and %u aliases lower-case and introduce three new aliases %D %N %U which store values without case conversions. But I'm not enough skilled in C to write a patch... and now I'm waiting for comments on this and answer from the developer.

Thanks in advance, Alexander.

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