[Dovecot] % in Usernames (dovecot 1.1.18)

[Michal Hlavinka]

Hi,

I'm forwarding feature request from one Fedora user:

<snip>
Shortly before suicide after migration to dbmail/postfix from Eudora Mailserver
because we use % in Usernames as fallback and Apple-Mail does no Plaintext-
Auth if CRAM-MD% was used before i installed dovecot as proxy

BUT it allows no % in Username
Please could be the following patch included?

--- dovecot-1.1.18/src/master/master-settings.c 2009-07-27 03:56:32.000000000
+0200
+++ dovecot-1.1.18-patched/src/master/master-settings.c 2009-08-10
22:57:09.728065279 +0200
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@
  MEMBER(executable) PKG_LIBEXECDIR"/dovecot-auth",
  MEMBER(user) "root",
  MEMBER(chroot) "",
- MEMBER(username_chars)
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@",
+ MEMBER(username_chars)
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@%",
  MEMBER(username_translation) "",
  MEMBER(username_format) "",
  MEMBER(master_user_separator) "",  
</snip>

Would it be possible or is there any reason why this is a wrong idea?

Regards,
Michal Hlavinka