On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 08:45:28AM -0400, Michael Sprague wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:42:19PM -0700, Robert Van Horn wrote: > > Hi, I have users that would prefer to ignore case in > > their email addresses. tiffany would like to be able to > > receive email as Tiffany, or tiFfany for that matter. > > The section in the documentation about case of local parts > > doesn't seem to fit this situation but I could be wrong. > > Is it standard to put the possibilities in the aliases file? > > > > What should I do? > > Right now, anything that isn't a valid username gets rejected > > as it should. > > > > exim4, cyrus21 > > Hi Bob, > > I think you're problem is with cyrus, not exim. I'm pretty sure exim > ignores case when processing a message. I haven't used cyrus in a while > but I think the mailbox names are case sensitive. So while exim will > determine that message for Tiffany should go in tiffany's mailbox, cyrus > will reject it so exim will reject it. > > Again, working from memory here, but I think I solved this problem in > the past by having exim convert the recipient to all lower case and > making sure that all mailboxes were in lower case. If I can find the > exact config info I'll post it.
Couldn't find my old configure file that dealt with this but found this in the FAQ: http://wiki.exim.org/FAQ/Delivery/Q0626?highlight=%28LMTP%29 Looks like it is Cyrus causing the issue. thanks, mikeS -- Michael F. Sprague | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saneinc.net | System and Network Engineering (SaNE), Inc Providers of the SpamOnion anti-spam service -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
