dovecot - Feb 2022 - Different handling of upper and lower case while indexing/searching with Solr

> On 10/02/2022 11:36 Patrik Peng <patrik.peng at hostpoint.ch> wrote:
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> On 09.02.22 17:47, Christian Kivalo wrote:
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> > How are your users added to your auth backend?
> 
> We use a SQL DB as auth backend. Users are added by an external
application.
> New accounts are all added as lowercase, but it could be possible that 
> there was a time in the past where accounts were added without conversion.
> At least the DB contains a few accounts with uppercase letters in the 
> localpart.
> 
> > Please post your doveconf -n output
> 
> Here you go (I stripped a few irrelevant sections):
Probably easiest fix is to fix the users in database to all lowercase, as you
are likely returning `user` attribute in your SQL queries.

Aki

On 10.02.22 10:43, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> Probably easiest fix is to fix the users in database to all lowercase, as
you are likely returning `user` attribute in your SQL queries.
We thought about this as well, but there are 500+ affected accounts and 
they are used by our customers which would mean for each of them to 
reconfigure all their clients.
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