[Dovecot] Case sensitive oddity when mail delivered.

[Pascal Volk]

On 04/30/2009 10:12 PM dovecot at corwyn.net wrote:
> 
> Mail location is determined by
> mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%n/Maildir
> 
> If I have an account user1 at example.com it works just fine. However, 
> when mail is sent to USER1 at EXAMPLE.COM it also delivers, but ends up 
> creating a new file structure so I end up with
> /var/spool/mail/example.com/user1  (with lower case mail in it)
> and
> /var/spool/mail/EXAMPLE.COM/USER1  (with  uppercase mail in it)
> 
> which is decidedly not good.

That's the correct behavior, as configured.

Try: mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir
                                         ^   ^
See also http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables


Regards,
Pascal
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