[Dovecot] strip domains

[Netlink Tech]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 09:48 -0400, Michael Baird wrote:
>> I don't
>> know why there is so much resistance to supporting functionality that is
>> mostly a standard feature with other pop3/imap servers, and which also
>> makes it *much* easier to migrate to dovecot from other solutions which
>> support the domain stripping.
>
> I don't remember having seen all that much requests for this feature.
> Perhaps lately several people have asked for it, but for the last 3
> years there haven't been all that many people.
>
> If I added a new setting for every single feature people asked,
> dovecot-example.conf would be much larger than it currently is. And it
> already is too large I think.
>
> So instead of adding lots of special case settings, I prefer to add few
> settings that can be useful for other cases as well. With that in mind,
> how about a setting something like this:
>
> # Username formatting before it's looked up from databases. You can use
> # the standard variables here, eg. %Lu would lowercase the username or
> # %n would drop away the domain if it was given. This translation is
> # done after auth_username_translation changes.
> #auth_username_format =

That would work great for me!
I would still have to work on PAM for SASL/SMTP_AUTH...but that is not a 
dovecot issue.