[Dovecot] Dovecot and CAPITALISATION = grrrr ;-(

Ben ben+dovecot at mail-subs.com
Wed Sep 18 13:39:13 EEST 2013


On 18/09/2013 09:23, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>
> Am 18.09.2013 09:43, schrieb Ben:
>> As far as I'm aware, email is case insensitive?
>
> yes, the localpart in theory is, but only fools would configure
> me at exacmple.com and ME at example.com for different users because
> it doe snot work in the real world
>
>> Dovecot however, seems to be taking offence at the fact that someone is sending mail to user at SOMEDOMAIN.XYZ.
>> Postfix has no issues handling it, it when it gets passed over to Dovecot LMTP that I get log lines such as :
>>
>> Sep 17 13:48:22 ukc-vm02-mx01 dovecot: auth: passwd-file(user at SOMEDOMAIN.XYZ): unknown user
>>
>> However user at somedomain.xyz *DOES* exist in the passwd file.  Just not with a capitalised domain !
>> I am confused
>
> RTFM
>
> auth_username_chars            = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@%
> auth_username_translation      = %@AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz
>


If I knew what I was looking for in TFM, I would have R'd it ;-)


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