[TriLUG] Squirrelmail and case sensitiviness

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 03:20 PM, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:

> I'm using Squirrelmail-1.2.8 on Red Hat 7.3, and my users have found an
> interesting feature.
>
> If 'foobar at sinner.com' user logs in as 'foobar', the user gets 
> 'foobar.abook'
> and 'foobar.prefs' files associated with user's account 
> foobar at sinner.com.
>
> But if the user logs in as FOOBAR, the user gets a brand new address 
> book...
> and I get a call "My addressbook has been lost!". Next day, the user 
> logs as
> FoobaR and "looses" his adressbook again. And so on.
>
> Although I see this feature as an interesting multi-profile 
> capability, my
> users don't like it.
>
> As I like my users very much,  I would like to disable this feature.
> Does anybody has any idea on how to prceed? Any Fine Manual?  Any URL?

http://www.phpfreaks.com/phpmanual/page/function.strtolower.html

Find the place in the PHP code where squirrelmail asks for the username 
and force it to lowercase.  Submit patch to squirrelmail maintainers.  
Rejoice.
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