[Kolab-devel] [issue801] ldap mail: and alias: must be lower case

[Dieter Kluenter]

Bernhard Reiter <kolab-issues at intevation.de> writes:

> New submission from Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>:
>
> Just debugged a problem 
> where another ldap tool was used which also wrote upper case letters 
> into the mail: and alias: attributes.
>
> This lead to problems: 
> a) mail did not get delivered, error message somethink like: 
> Failed to set recipient: Invalid response from server, code 550.
> (This is a typical response if the user does not exist).
>
> b) Setting a maildelivery via sieve failed with:
> Not currently in TRANSACTION state
> (also typical when the user does not exist).
>
> The problem is hard to diagnose as this requirement is not documented 
> in kolab2.schema. We should document it there.
> (I would have added a phrase, but I want your confirmation).

There must be another reason. The matching rule for mail and alias
attributes is 'caseIgnoreIA5Match', thus LDAP accepts either case as
valid, same with SMTP and IMAP.

-Dieter

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