Daniluk, Cris writes:
> 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.
Cris, qmail preserves the case for email which transits the host.
Qmail even preserves the case everywhere internally. The only time it
ignores the case is when it chooses a username to deliver the email
to. *Then* it lowercases the email address while comparing it to a
username. Oh, and if you use users/assign, then you can also persuade
qmail to lowercase the username while comparing it to the lowercased
copy of the email address. So the only time you'll have a problem is
when you have usernames which differ only in the case of the letters.
And that's a really, Really, REALLY bad idea anyway.
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