I don't know if this has been mentioned here or even thought of in the grand scheme of things and I'm just sending a one time email about it "just in case" I recently swapped my server around and I'm using dovecot now....LOVE it! Could use a bit more intuitive error messages, but otherwise, it's great! But there is one flaw that I've run into with my users. Case sensitivity. As you all know, Linux is case sensitive and windows is not and mail should always be lower case. I have users who are checking Thisemail@domain.tld instead of thisemail@domain.tld. This causes my build to create a folder for Thisemail@domain.tld to check instead of pulling mail from thisemail@domain.tld Either rate, I'm correcting users when I find it, but it doesn't help when I have those that USE ALL CAPS BECAUSE EITHER IT'S COOL OR THEY USE IT FOR OTHER PURPOSES AND DON'T TURN IT OFF. No, I'm not yelling, I'm being sarcastic :) Anyway, just incase noone was aware of that little "issue"....
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On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 09:13 -0700, Paul Blankenship wrote:
I don't know if this has been mentioned here or even thought of in the grand scheme of things and I'm just sending a one time email about it "just in case" I recently swapped my server around and I'm using dovecot now....LOVE it! Could use a bit more intuitive error messages, but otherwise, it's great! But there is one flaw that I've run into with my users. Case sensitivity.
I think you can lower-case the name just about anywhere, e.g. default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%Lu/.mail instead of default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/.mail
See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/variables.txt (on debian systems, otherwise just look for variables.txt)
johannes
I have always had a similar problem. Our's though is that we authenticate using SFU and nis. So in addition to the folder needing to be lowercase, the username has to be as well. It hasn't be discussed in a while but Timo mentioned that the %L wouldn't work for username's. To workaround it, I used this patch. However, I have no idea how it works with other authentication methods as we use passwd and I haven't tested it since test69 so it probably needs tweaking.
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-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Johannes Berg Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:35 PM To: Paul Blankenship Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] bug/feature
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 09:13 -0700, Paul Blankenship wrote:
I don't know if this has been mentioned here or even thought of in the grand scheme of things and I'm just sending a one time email about it "just in case" I recently swapped my server around and I'm using dovecot now....LOVE it! Could use a bit more intuitive error messages, but otherwise, it's great! But there is one flaw that I've run into with my users. Case sensitivity.
I think you can lower-case the name just about anywhere, e.g. default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%Lu/.mail instead of default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/.mail
See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/variables.txt (on debian systems, otherwise just look for variables.txt)
johannes
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