(your formating is really annoying).
This issue has been explained already multiple times:
qmail preserves the case during SMTP transaction, as it is specified in the
RFC.
However, the RFC leaves freedom to the final delivery agent to have its own
case policy.
so:
- qmail doesn't violate any RFCs (on this issue)
- SMTP commands are not case-sensitive
- domain name parts are not case-sensitive
- local parts are or aren't case-sensitive depending on the final (local)
delivery mechanism and machine.
- qmail local delivery mechanism is case insensitive.
David.
At 03:44 PM 8/24/99 -0400, Daniluk, Cris wrote:
>>>>
This is very inaccurate. I spent the last week reading over the SMTP RFC
and here's a quote from page 3 section 2:
Commands and replies are not case sensitive. That is, a command or reply
word may be upper case, lower case, or any mixture of upper and lower case.
Note that this is not true of mailbox user names. For some hosts the user
name is case sensitive, and SMTP implementations must take case to preserve
the case of user names as they appear in mailbox arguments. Host names are
not case sensitive.
This is reiterated several times throughout the RFC. It seems that anything
that would claim full compliance would have to take care to preserve the
case. This is vital.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Magnus Bodin
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 1:50 PM
> To: Russell Nelson
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Case Sensitive
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > I have qmail working quite satisfactory
> > > with help from lwq and all of you.
> > >
> > > I have now made 2 accounts
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Don't. It confuses people, and qmail gives you no mechanism for
> > distinguishing between them.
>
> Not just qmail. The very SMTP protocol that every MTA should conform
> to is IN-casesensitive.
>
> /magnus
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