[horde] Trailing spaces in username

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Toomas Aas <toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee>:

> Hello!
>
> I have Horde 3.3.8 and IMP 4.3.7 installed. Horde is configured to  
> use IMP for authentication and IMP is authenticating against Cyrus  
> IMAP server.
>
> Today one user called me and said that she's been unable to send any  
> mail for 3 days. Whenever she composed a new mail and clicked  
> "Send", she received an error saying that the From address is not  
> valid.
>
> I have usernames in Cyrus formatted as firstname_lastname. The  
> address in the error message was "firstname_lastname @mydomain.com",  
> note the space between name and @. I had the user log in again  
> making sure that she enter the username without trailing spaces, and  
> the problem was solved.
>
> Looking at the horde_prefs database table it seems to me that more  
> than one user is being or has been affected by this, because there  
> are rows with different amount of spaces between name and @ sign in  
> the pref_uid column for several users. It seems that IMAP user  
> 'jane_doe' can successfully authenticate to horde using username  
> 'jane_doe ', 'jane_doe  ' or 'jane_doe      ', the IMAP server  
> authenticates her successfully but Horde considers each of them a  
> different user. Is there something I can configure correctly to  
> avoid this issue?

You should ask on the Cyrus mailing list instead. Though I bet this  
isn't an issue with Cyrus either, but rather the authentication  
backend you use.
Beside that, you can still use the username hooks in Horde to  
normalize the user names.

Jan.

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