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Email usernames seem case sensitive. Error "Cannot send mail as" whenever the text case doesn't match.

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  • d19dotcaD Offline
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    wrote on last edited by girish
    #1

    Hello,

    Recently ran into an odd one to me, mostly because I understood from various specs that emails should be case insensitive, but it seems this may conflict with Cloudron authentication which I guess is case sensitive?

    A client recently setup their Mail client app after a rebuild, and while I always encourage my clients to use all lowercase for their usernames as a best practice, they used Michelle@example.com for their username instead of michelle@example.com. Received the following error in the logs when she tried to send:

    Jun 14 09:54:23 [INFO] [84E9F590-D0B1-4CB6-8F29-053BB08D3EEF.1] [core] hook=mail plugin=cloudron function=authorize_mail_from params=<michelle@example.com> retval=DENY msg="Authenticated user Michelle@example.com cannot send mail as michelle@example.com"
    

    My concerns are the following:

    1. Usernames and email addresses should be case insensitive. Is Cloudron case-sensitive when it comes to usernames?
    2. If usernames were case sensitive (which seems to be the case here), then why is it even authenticating Michelle@ in the first place when the mailbox name is established in Cloudron as michelle@?

    My expectations:

    1. User logs in as Michelle@example.com or even MICHELLE@example.com which Cloudron should equate as michelle@example.com
    2. User able to send mail as anything that matches their username email, since case sensitivity should not matter.

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    Dustin Dauncey
    www.d19.ca

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  • girishG Do not disturb
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    girish Staff
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    #2

    @d19dotca We have tests to make sure that mailbox delivery code is case insensitive. But maybe there is a bug that authentication username is case sensitive.

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    d19dotca
    replied to girish on last edited by d19dotca
    #3

    @girish Yes, definitely seems like a defect somewhere. I initially didn't think it was related to that case sensitivity and had even informed my clients before that they're not case-sensitive, but this seems to either not be the case any longer (changed inadvertently?) or I just perhaps never ran into it before but it maybe was case sensitive for a while now, not too sure. Hopefully this can be fixed though, as this will certainly present more issues as the business grows too and more clients are onboarded.

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    Dustin Dauncey
    www.d19.ca

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  • girishG Do not disturb
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    I managed to reproduce it:

    dd32ed12-1e76-405d-abbd-d8d75022cce7-image.png

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  • girishG Do not disturb
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    wrote on last edited by
    #5

    Indeed, there was a missing normalization. I have fixed it for the next release.

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