What happened to normalizeuid?

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Fri Jan 20 05:33:22 EST 2017


We force it to lowercase in Nginx.

Bron.

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, at 21:24, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
> 
> --On 20. Januar 2017 um 08:04:25 +1100 Bron Gondwana via Info-cyrus 
> <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, at 03:31, Sebastian Hagedorn via Info-cyrus wrote:
> >> --On 19. Januar 2017 um 17:18:06 +0100 Simon Matter
> >> <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote:
> >>
> >> > We and others had this as a patch in our RPMs but I think it has never
> >> > been part of vanilla cyrus-imapd.
> >>
> >> Oops. Should I open an issue for a feature request? I'm surprised that's
> >> not something many sites want ...
> >
> > OK, I've never heard of this thing. What is it?
> >
> > .. lmgtfy ..
> >
> > Right, so it's something to normalise the userid when you log in.
> >
> > It will definitely have to be rewritten for Cyrus 3+, because all that
> > stuff got moved into mbname_t and friends.
> 
> Perhaps my assumption that the option is necessary is wrong? But I know for 
> certain that our webmail users use varied case-spellings of their user 
> names, because in earlier versions of our webmail system they would get 
> different user profiles depending on how they had entered their user names 
> ;-)
> 
> Bron, how does Fastmail deal with that? Do you simply force users to use 
> the canonic spelling? I guess we could do that, but I'd rather not.
> 
> Cheers
> Sebastian
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