> From: Magnus Bodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:03:30 +0200
>
> 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?
that's in reference to mailboxes on other systems. The idea is that you can't
assume that any other server will unify the cases.
About all that can be said is that qmail isn't wrong here. You can't quite
make a case that qmail is right. Either approach is legal by RFC821/RFC822.
Chris
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