[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? 

-- 
Best regards,
 Vilius



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