No. The final system is allowed to do whatever it wants with case. The
case preservation is only required if the MTA is NOT the final delivery
MTA. qmail by design is case independent when it is the final delivery
MTA.
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Austad, Jay wrote:
> Doesn't the case change violate RFC821 or 822? I seem to remember reading
> that case in the user portion of the email address should never be changed
> because the accounts "Bob" and "bob" are two completely different accounts
> on a unix machine.
>
> Jay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai MacTane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 1:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: A bug or am I being daft?
>
>
> At 10/13/00 10:47 AM , Ben Cody Houston wrote:
> >Basically, I'm trying to deliver mail to:
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >so, I have an ~alias/.qmail-Bob:Hanson file... but it won't work. It will
> >work if it's ~alias/.qmail-bob:hanson - should either one work?
>
> No, only the latter one should work. See
> http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/incominguser.html#alias-dots. As it says, "Dots
> are converted to colons, and uppercase is converted to lowercase."
>
> --Kai MacTane
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Uh-oh... Gravity works."
> --Batty Koda, "Ferngully"
> (Hey, bats are gothic.)
>
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