[Dovecot] Re: strip domains

[Roger Weeks]

So if I understand this correctly, %u matches the whole username in  
the sql database, but %n only matches the name before @?

One thing we discovered in migrating from courier-imap to Dovecot is  
that courier-imap supported user at domain as a valid login name, where  
by default using %u in the SQL query, Dovecot does not.  So it would  
have been useful for us to avoid a number of tech support calls for  
users who have user at domain configured in their mail clients.

--
Roger J. Weeks
Systems & Network Administrator
Mendocino Community Network

On Apr 12, 2006, at 7:16 AM, dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:05:24 +0300
> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] strip domains
> To: Netlink Tech <tech at netlinkcom.com>
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
>
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:36 -0500, Netlink Tech wrote:
> In general I don't see this as very useful feature. Why are your users
> logging in with @domain? Or why not change your passdbs/userdbs to  
> just
> contain the domain, and set auth_default_realm so everyone always logs
> in with domains?
>
>
> Here you can modify your SQL command to use %n instead of %u.
>
>
>>    userdb passwd {
>>    }
>>
>
>>    userdb sql {
>>      args = /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
>>    }
>>
>
> And here again you can use %n.
>