On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:50:53AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 01:29:02PM +0200,
> Magnus Bodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Note that qmail folds letters to lower case, which actually is correct
> > -- but only for the postmaster address.
>
> No. Except for postmaster and the null address 'local' parts of the address can
> be treated however the local site wants. Case can be significant or not.
Allright, I'm nitpicking. It's ok for me.
But RFC821 also says that "SMTP implementations must take case
to preserve the case of user names as they appear in mailbox arguments"
and since I can create users with different casing, in this case the SMTP
implementation isn't taking care of this, isn't so?
And the case folding is only for user lookups. The environment variables
such as DEFAULT, LOCAL etc is not folded.
A matter of taste I assume.
> The broken mail servers are the ones that treat different encodings of
> the same address as different.
I agree that those are broken.
/magnus
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