dovecot - Oct 2005 - Case of %n (feauture request)

Hello,

I'm using dovecot not for a long time but I've newer seen most powerful
and handy POP3/IMAP server. Thank Timo for dovecot; thank community for help!

I would like to notice that %n is case-sensitive: it always stores user part
of login without case conversions. As a result there are some inconveniences
with virtual user organization, for example:

password_query = SELECT `password` FROM `users` WHERE login = '%u'
user_query = SELECT
"mbox:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INDEX=MEMORY"
	AS `mail`, 101 AS `uid`, 101 AS `gid` FROM users WHERE login = '%u'

In this example authentication works perfectly but user can not access it's 
mailbox because all mailbox names are lower-case.

I think it would be more handy to make %d, %n and %u aliases lower-case
and introduce three new aliases %D %N %U which store values without case 
conversions. But I'm not enough skilled in C to write a patch... and now
I'm
waiting for comments on this and answer from the developer.

Thanks in advance, Alexander.

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Kind Regards,	Alexander Shikoff
minotaur@crete.org.ua

Doesn't ".../%d/%Ln" do what you want? See doc/variables.txt.

Best Wishes,
Chris

Alexander Shikoff wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using dovecot not for a long time but I've newer seen most
powerful
> and handy POP3/IMAP server. Thank Timo for dovecot; thank community for
help!
> 
> I would like to notice that %n is case-sensitive: it always stores user
part
> of login without case conversions. As a result there are some
inconveniences
> with virtual user organization, for example:
> 
> password_query = SELECT `password` FROM `users` WHERE login = '%u'
> user_query = SELECT
"mbox:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INDEX=MEMORY"
> 	AS `mail`, 101 AS `uid`, 101 AS `gid` FROM users WHERE login =
'%u'
> 
> In this example authentication works perfectly but user can not access
it's
> mailbox because all mailbox names are lower-case.
> 
> I think it would be more handy to make %d, %n and %u aliases lower-case
> and introduce three new aliases %D %N %U which store values without case 
> conversions. But I'm not enough skilled in C to write a patch... and
now I'm
> waiting for comments on this and answer from the developer.
> 
> Thanks in advance, Alexander.
> 

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