[dev] Fwd: [Bug 1101] Changed - Case sensitivity issue with categories

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> Personally, I don't want to make accomodations for non-case-sensitive
> logins. Anyone else?

My IMAP server will allow logins with any case, which really surprised me when
I first discovered this!  But a lot of users, for some reason unknown to me,
do use the different cased letters in their logins, so this kind of works
out for them, *as long as they are consistent.*

The problem is, if they login inconsistently (e.g. sometimes all lower case,
sometimes all upper case) then the IMAP server accepts it without problem in
all cases,  but their horde database entries (prefs, etc) that are keyed off
their username work or don't work, or get duplicated, based on the case they
used.

So, if you did fix this, it would fix some problems.  But if you don't fix 
it, that's cool tool.  But why fix it in the code, when I could -- if I
wasn't so lazy -- just fix it with the existing hooks (just write a hook
that converts all logins to lowercase, for example)?  Am I missing something,
or isn't this a job for the hooks?

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

Why get even? Get odd!