On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 13:21 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
What I want is for dovecot to strip realms and force lowercase of usernames _before passing them to pop3-login or pam for authentication_ So if a user tries to login as "SoMEuSERNAme@msn.com" it actually authenticates them as "someusername". Stripping the realm and lowercasing the name _before checking it against the passwd/shadow files_. Other pop3 servers like teapop have explicit support for this. Sounds pretty ugly and kludgy feature. If you used SQL database to store users, you could easily do this.
No more ugly and kludgy than default_mail_env.
All that's needed is something to mangle logins. In fact the logic would be very similar to default_mail_env.
We don't use SQL database to store users and moving to such would incur great time and effort (and require major reworking of all our mail system). So it's a non-option.
Like I said, other pop3 servers like teapop have explicit support for this. It would be nice if we could move to dovecot without loss of functionality.
-Dan