Am 17.12.2013 16:55, schrieb Charles Marcus:
> On 2013-12-17 2:39 AM, Andreas Schulze <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Am 16.12.2013 15:25 schrieb Charles Marcus:
>>> >auth_username_format = %Lu"
>>> >This really should be the default...
>> I disagree. That solve a symptom, not the problem.
>>
>> As of rfc3522 a localpart*may*  be used case sensitive or not.
>> I suggest a switch "my_local_parts_are_casesensitive = yes/no"
>> or "my_local_parts_are_caseINsensitive = no/yes"
>> The name and default must be well selected and not break existing behaviour.
>>
>> I think that's more transparent then changing an mostly unvisible setting.
> 
> Your system, your rules, however...
> 
> Just because you *can* do something doesn't mean you *should* do it - and 
> just because something is RFC compliant
> doesn't mean you should always implement it that way.
> 
> There are very few compelling arguments for supporting identical usernames 
> differing only by case. One is some kind
> of legacy (unix) environment where you already have a lot of these... but I 
> can't readily think of another (good
> one)...

in fact it does always harm because users

there are enough writing their address uppercase while the server was never 
configured
that way, there are enough writing [email protected] and you can 
hardly
find a normal person who accepts that writing a message to "[email protected]" 
goes
to a different person than "[email protected]" or bounce in one of the cases

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