What happened to normalizeuid?

Ken Murchison murch at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Jan 20 08:00:54 EST 2017



On 01/19/2017 04:04 PM, Bron Gondwana via Info-cyrus 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.

This sounds like something that belongs in a SASL user canonicalization 
plugin rather than in Cyrus IMAP itself.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Principal Systems Software Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University



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