Thank you for replying to my email.
Connect was probably the wrong word. Here is the situation. I work on
operational project that uses qmail to receive incoming mail on Digital
Alpha servers. We have found that all user accounts created in the
/etc/passwd file of this server must be made in lower case, because it is
our experience that qmail seems to convert incoming mailbox names (To:) to
lower case.
Question 1: > Is qmail RFC compliant to the best of your
knowledge. Especially with regards to case sensitivity, mailbox user names
and any address conversions that take place?
Question 2: If qmail does convert any of the addresses to lower
case, can you shed any light on why?>
Question 3: I have been told that qmail is RFC compliant, in that
it is case insensitive, but it does alter the case of a mailbox user name.
Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?
Question 4: What are qmail-getpw, qmail-pw2u, qmail-users? What do
they do? How if at all could they be used to handle mixed-case user names.
Question 5: How do you get qmail to accept and deliver mail to a
user with mixed case user name on a Unix system? For example the Unix
account name is: "GregGum123"
Thanks in advance for your help.
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From: Mr. Christopher F. Miller
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 11:17 AM
To: Gum, Greg
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Qmail case sensitivity
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 10:46:22AM -0400, Gum, Greg wrote:
>
>
> I am using Qmail on a Unix system (Digital Unix) and recently had
a
> complaint from my customer that a new email user was unable to
connect to
> the system using Qmail. Evidently the user name needed to be
upper and
> lower case in their system and possibly in our server also.
What do you mean by "connect to"?
If that is a pop connection, the username might be case sensitive.
cucipop seems to accept case insensitive, qmail-popup seems to be
case sensitive.
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Christopher F. Miller, Publisher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME
04039
1.207.657.5078
http://www.maine.com/
Database publishing, e-commerce, office/internet integration, Debian
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