[dev] Fwd: [horde] Fwd: Case insensitive unique key
Vilius Šumskas
vilius at lnk.lt
Mon May 9 19:33:30 UTC 2011
Sveiki,
Monday, May 9, 2011, 7:57:40 PM, you wrote:
> Quoting Vilius ?umskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:
>>> I don't really care, except that this will break a fair number of
>>> existing IMP installations. So there needs to be a giant disclaimer
>>> somewhere in IMP which pretty much says that you can't use hordeauth
>>> with IMP anymore.
>>
>> That's bad. 'hordeauth' is used extensively here. Any chance
>> normalization
>> could be done before authentication takes place?
> AFAICT, this kind of defeats the whole purpose of making the change in
> the first place. In other words, converting Horde to normalized
> usernames and then creating a system to un-normalize for certain
> applications is no different/better than what we have right now. In
> fact, it would be a less desirable solution since it would involve
> large code changes as opposed to the stable status quo code.
I ment why it cannot be normalized for Horde *and* for IMP too?
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Best regards,
Vilius
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