dovecot - Sep 2012 - Strip backslash from usernames

Hi,

Is there a way to strip a backslash if it exists at the start of 
username like \user at example.com within the Dovecot LDA? I am using 
Dovecot 2.1.9 with a LDAP backend, so I cannot do any sort of SQL trickery.

Dominic.

Dominic Malolepszy wrote:
> Is there a way to strip a backslash if it exists at the start of
> username like \user at example.com within the Dovecot LDA? I am using
> Dovecot 2.1.9 with a LDAP backend, so I cannot do any sort of SQL
> trickery.
Address rewriting should be done in the MTA.
I see no point why this should be done in the LDA?

Regards
Daniel
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On 13/09/12 10:38, Daniel Parthey wrote:
> Dominic Malolepszy wrote:
>> Is there a way to strip a backslash if it exists at the start of
>> username like \user at example.com within the Dovecot LDA? I am using
>> Dovecot 2.1.9 with a LDAP backend, so I cannot do any sort of SQL
>> trickery.
>
> Address rewriting should be done in the MTA.
> I see no point why this should be done in the LDA?
>
> Regards
> Daniel
Agreed, I was just hoping I would not have to poke around the existing 
Sendmail setup we have here, in the end it turned out the backslashes 
were leftover legacy crud in some of the LDAP entries that actually did 
nothing.