I wrote this patch a while ago when I ran into this problem trying to authenticate off of MS SFU. It works for 0.99.10.4 - not sure about any other version.
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-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Gerald V. Livingston II Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:38 PM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] [ #14832]: Capital letters in POP3 logins
I just tested and IMAP doesn't ignore case either.
Remove the UPPER CASE maildir created by your POP3 login then do the same thing with an IMAP client. Set up the IMAP client to use an UPPER CASE username and when you log-in/refresh folders it creates the new UPPERCASE empty Maildir all over again.
Crap, between this and the missing QUOTA feature I guess I'm gonna have to rip out Dovecot and use Courier. I really wanted to use Dovecot for it's speed with the indexing.
What I don't understand is -- all usernames in my test database are stored in lower case -- shouldn't it simply fail to match and cause the login to fail? Can anyone point out how to force the match to be case sensitive? I'll investigate and get back to the list. It would be "nicer" though if Dovecot converted all username input to lower case before authenticating to maintain uniqueness of email addresses.
Gerald
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:16:12 +0400 "support@majordomo.ru" <support@majordomo.ru> wrote:
Using dovecot (version 1.0-test59, with mysql-auth) I saw strange problem: after authentication by POP3 in case that username given has capital letters, for example SupportTeam@majordomo.ru, dovecot creates new maildir 'SupportTeam' for this username instead reading mails from existing maildir 'supportteam'. Then dovecot scans created maildir 'SupportTeam' and returns 0 messages (sure:). IMAP4 works fine in the same time.
Can I solve this problem or it is virtually "bug" of dovecot?