Add user mailbox fails for surnames with apostrophe

[Anthony Farrell]

On 12 March 2013 04:06, Philip Trickett (List) <phil-ml at techworks.ie> wrote:

>  On 09/03/13 03:19, Anthony Farrell wrote:
>
> When adding a user who has a surname with apostrophe and two leading
> capital letters (e.g O'Carroll) the user account is added but kolab does
> not create the mailbox. When accessing the newly created account the
> message ' Error: mailbox does not exist' is presented.
>
>  pykolab log shows:
>
>  pykolab.daemon ERROR Error in process 'Kolab(example.com)', terminating:
> SyntaxError('invalid syntax', ('<string>', 1, 65, "retval = '{0}.{1}@{2}'.format('Nigel'[0:1].capitalize(),
> 'O'Carroll', 'example.com')"))
>
>  Is there an easy solution or should this be considered a bug?
>
>
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>  I would consider this a bug, but I have come across other systems that
> have this problem too.
>
> At the moment, my workaround is to remove the apostrophe, e.g O'Carroll
> becomes OCaroll.
>
>
> Phil
>

Yes I did that Phil. I think the  double capitalisation also affects it.
Will have a closer look at recipient policy when I get the chance. Funny
how people are fussy about their name being presented correctly.

Tony

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