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.
-- Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff minotaur@crete.org.ua