Usernames and imp-webmail.

[Igor Brezac]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Christiaan den Besten wrote:

> Hi all !
>
> Our users are pretty much used to use imp for webmail. Unfortunately after 
> migrating to cyrus some have been scared like hell, all their email was lost! 
> Or so it seemed :)
>
> ----
> # Forcing recipient user to lowercase
> # Cyrus 2.1 is case-sensitive.  If all your mail users are in lowercase, it 
> is
> # probably a very good idea to set lmtp_downcase_rcpt to true.  The default 
> is
> # to assume the user knows what he is doing, and not downcase anything.
> lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes
> ----
>
> Above is configured in imapd.conf. But when a user enters his/her username 
> with some capital letter in it, they will be authenticated succesfully and 
> see a empy mailbox :(
>
> Is there any other option I could set to help them ?
>

Use
username_tolower: yes

You can also easily fix imp to lowercase usernames.

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Igor
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