case sensitive

Bartosz Jozwiak bartek at cq-link.sr
Mon Aug 4 08:05:15 EDT 2003


Yes you are right.
Ok so I will try to upgrade. Oh yes, should I upgrade Cyrus SASL and Cyrus
IMAP togther ??

Bartek.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Brezac" <igor at ypass.net>
To: "Andre Nicholson" <andre at neo-anime.org>
Cc: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: case sensitive


>
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Andre Nicholson wrote:
>
> > Wait, hold on here. You're making this harder than it has to be.
> >
> > Make the /client/ use lowercase names --
> >
> > MySQL:
> > SELECT LOWER(email_user) FROM some_table;
> >
> > If it's Web-Cyradm that you want to change just find where it passes the
authentication
> > information off and just alter the application to change the username to
lowercase.
> >
>
> What you are proposing will not work.
>
> Authentication will work, but imapd will fail to find the mailbox when the
> username and mailbox case do not match.
>
> -Igor
>
> > Andre
> >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Bartosz Jozwiak wrote:
> > >
> > >> So if I upgarde to cyrus 2.2 the username will not be case sensitive
any
> > >> more?
> > >
> > > It will appear case insensitive to the user.  Cyrus will lowercases
all
> > > usernames before it proceeds.  You need to make sure that all
mailboxes
> > > are lowercase in the mailstore and you will need to add
'username_tolower:
> > > yes' to imapd.conf.
> > >
> > >> I am storing or apssword and username in database MySql.
> > >> Still it will work?
> > >
> > > Yup.
> > >
> > > -Igor
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Bartosz Jozwiak
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: "Igor Brezac" <igor at ipass.net>
> > >> To: "Bartosz Jozwiak" <bartek at cq-link.sr>
> > >> Cc: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> > >> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 3:38 PM
> > >> Subject: Re: case sensitive
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> > You need to upgrade to cyrus 2.2 or make a patch.
> > >> >
> > >> > -Igor
> > >> >
> > >> > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Bartosz Jozwiak wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > Hello,
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Is it possible to somehow change Cyrus that your login name will
not be
> > >> case
> > >> > > sensitive??
> > >> > >
> > >> > > I am using Web-Cyradm, Cyrus SASL, Cyrus Imap and Mysql.
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Bartosz Jozwiak
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > >> > --
> > >> > Igor
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > > Igor
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> -- 
> Igor
>





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