On 19/09/2012 15:34, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 09/19/2012 10:06 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 19.09.2012 14:47, schrieb Michael Orlitzky:
As an example, our IMAP server is Dovecot and our accounts are case-sensitive.
why are they not lowercase?
The only one that matters is RFC 5321, "The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive." But practically,
What do we do with existing mailboxes User1 and user1?
The simplest maildir mapping is the trivial one from username to directory. On any trustworthy filesystem, that's case-sensitive.
no comment.
Mangling the case can lead to bugs; some software can handle it, others can't.
It gives users misconceptions about the way email works, and that can indirectly cause problems.
I don't wanna, the bug's in Roundcube.
Whilst I appreciate case-sensitivity, I have *ALWAYS* thought of email addresses as being case-insensitive. i.e. joe@bloggs.com and JOE@BLOGGS.COM should go to exactly the same place. Logging in should use case-sensitive passwords but not usernames (in my opinion). I don't think this is a bug with RC but again, that is a personal opinion.
-- Janek