[dev] Fwd: [horde] Fwd: Case insensitive unique key

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Vilius ?umskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:

> 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?

How would this work?  IMAP names are case sensitive.  The proposal is  
for Horde names to be case insensitive.  Obviously, these don't play  
well with each other.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]