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

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