[BlueOnyx:15984] Re: Uppercase in email addresses

[Gerald Waugh]

On 09/18/2014 10:44 AM, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
>
> On 9/18/2014 9:52 AM, Gerald Waugh wrote:
>> Thanks for the responses.
>> After studying the issue further....
>>
>> Sep 17 15:46:35 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 3
>> attempts): user=<JohnDoe>
>> but the user can login
>> Sep 18 09:03:29 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<jdoe>
>>
>> So I tried to make an alias JohnDoe for user jdoe received error
>> "Please enter characters containing only lowercase alphanumeric
>> characters, period, and underscores"
>> BTW, I was able to create the JohnDoe alias in virtusertable and all was OK.
>>
>> I now assume I should make an alias johndoe for the user, GUI accepted,
>> now to wait for results.
> 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
--
Gerald