[Dovecot] Problem in dovecot 0.99 - login username case sensitive create fake maildirs

[Chris Wakelin]

In 1.0, you can have

auth_username_translation =
AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz

which converts the username to lower-case.

Best Wishes,
Chris

Max CtRiX wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have noticed a weird behaviour in dovecot 0.99 which, I hope, is not
> replicated in 1.0-alpha.
> 
> First I have to say that it works very well.
> So if I login with user foo at bar.com, the maildir is created.
> 
> But when I log in with User FOO at BAR.COM, or FOO at BAR.com, then
> two other maildirs are created. Authentication is ok (I'm using mysql
> backend) but no mails are obviously found.
> 
> Maybe a solutions would be adding some config item to turn lowercase the
> maildir path or authentication tokens (received from client) at login time.
> 
> Or maybe I am missing something. Is there a solution for this problem
> out there ?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Massimo
> 
> 
> 


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