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

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 10:29, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> 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.

It was the reason,
as Cyrus imap if commanded to create Mailboxres for users with 
upppercase letters in the front part of the email address,
will just do this and fail later when email comes in being lower case.

Bernhard
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