Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:31:15 -0500There seem to be 3 places that have to be dealt with:
From: John Alton Tamplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
>I'm kinda unhappy about the limited scope of the patch. It makes
>usernames case-insensitive during delivery, but they're case-sensitive
>everywhere else. I'm not sure this is a great idea.
>
>Maybe a global switch of case-sensitive mailbox names would make more
>sense (thus LeG+detail -> user.leg.Detail, and "LEG" could log
>in). I'm not sure, though.
> >
I made that suggestion, and the only response at the time was negative.
I'm very fickle.
I think also a global case-sensitivity switch is considerably hard
than the patch Henrique proposed, but somehow I feel that the patch
Henrique proposed better belongs in the MTA.
I dunno. Maybe we should just commit it, solve this problem, and go on
with life.
1) login
2) message delivery
3) mailbox names
It seems like 1 is very localized and a trivial change in auth_canonifyid (if it isn't appropriate for Kerberos, then the switch could just be ignored in auth_krb*.c) . 2 is easy enough and a small variant of Henrique's patch should do it. 3 is much harder, since you potentially have to handle select Shared Folders/user/JTampli/Test to resolve to user/jtampli/Test and similar situations. I think it is less of an issue because most clients are just going to show the user what LIST/etc return (and any running altnamespace won't see them except for other users that have granted permissions to one of their folders), so I would be happy with a patch that solves only 1 & 2 (and in fact I will probably implement it myself for local use if nobody is interested in getting into the official distribution).
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