[Dovecot] [ #14832]: Capital letters in POP3 logins

[John Peacock]

Gerald V. Livingston II wrote:
> 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?

If you are using MySQL, all string comparisons are case insensitive by 
default.

> It would be "nicer" though if
> Dovecot converted all username input to lower case before authenticating to
> maintain uniqueness of email addresses.

No, it should be a configurable option, since some sites would want that 
and others wouldn't...

John

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