Status of #357040 (suggestion: default to caseless usernames)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
> What is the status of bug #357040? This is our only outstanding bug
> that's not pending or wontfix. As far as I can tell, the consensus was
> to change debian/imapd.conf to have lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes. The patch
> would be in debian/imapd.conf:

> # Forcing recipient user to lowercase
> # Cyrus 2.2 is case-sensitive.  If all your mail users are in lowercase,
> it is
> # probably a very good idea to set lmtp_downcase_rcpt to true.  The
> default is
> # to assume the user knows what he is doing, and not downcase anything.
> -#lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes
> +lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes
> 
> Are we agreed on this, and if so, should I make this change and commit it?

Sure, go ahead and commit it.  Adding a reference to the RFC in the option
comment to validate our default of enabling it would be a good thing too, I
think.

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