[BlueOnyx:15985] Re: Uppercase in email addresses

[Gerald Waugh]

On 09/18/2014 10:56 AM, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On 09/18/2014 10:44 AM, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
>> Actually, you do not need to create separate aliases for uppercase and 
>> lowercase versions of a user.   They're automatically implied, because 
>> the server is not making a distinction.  It's case insensitive.
>>
>> In other words, if you make an alias "johndoe" in the BlueOnyx GUI, then 
>> email sent to JohnDoe, johndoe, JoHnDoe or whatever other combination of 
>> caps and lowercase will work out.
>>
> thanks, figured that out.
> It was confusing that when I added JohnDoe alias in the GUI received an
> error.
> But when (JohnDoe) was added manually in virtusertable all was OK.
> I now have johndoe in the GUI, nothing to report so far
Not looking good, failing - /var/log/secure

Sep 18 11:27:57 mail auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication
failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser=JohnDoe rhost=1.2.3.4
Sep 18 11:27:57 mail auth: pam_succeed_if(dovecot:auth): error
retrieving information about user JohnDoe