Case sensivity: Strict rfc5321 or reality compliance

2013-04-15 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Hi, sorry, I know this is not directly related to postfix but I know that there are several very experienced people reading this list. My question is how you (the people that use and administer mailservers) handle the localpart case sensivity according to rfc5321: The local-part of a mailbox

Re: Case sensivity: Strict rfc5321 or reality compliance

2013-04-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.04.2013 14:24, schrieb Jan P. Kessler: Hi, sorry, I know this is not directly related to postfix but I know that there are several very experienced people reading this list. My question is how you (the people that use and administer mailservers) handle the localpart case sensivity

Re: Case sensivity: Strict rfc5321 or reality compliance

2013-04-15 Thread Rod K
On 4/15/2013 8:24 AM, Jan P. Kessler wrote: Hi, sorry, I know this is not directly related to postfix but I know that there are several very experienced people reading this list. My question is how you (the people that use and administer mailservers) handle the localpart case sensivity

Re: Case sensivity: Strict rfc5321 or reality compliance

2013-04-15 Thread Jan P. Kessler
localpart case sensivity according to rfc5321: The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive. You are misunderstanding. Relaying MTAs MUST treat the local-part as case sensitive. IOW, until the message is received at the destination, case must be preserved. However, the RFC

Re: Case sensivity: Strict rfc5321 or reality compliance

2013-04-15 Thread Rod K
On 4/15/2013 9:44 AM, Jan P. Kessler wrote: localpart case sensivity according to rfc5321: The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive. You are misunderstanding. Relaying MTAs MUST treat the local-part as case sensitive. IOW, until the message is received at the destination,

Re: Case sensivity: Strict rfc5321 or reality compliance

2013-04-15 Thread Wietse Venema
Jan P. Kessler: Hi, sorry, I know this is not directly related to postfix but I know that there are several very experienced people reading this list. My question is how you (the people that use and administer mailservers) handle the localpart case sensivity according to rfc5321: The

Re: Case sensivity: Strict rfc5321 or reality compliance

2013-04-15 Thread Noel Jones
On 4/15/2013 7:24 AM, Jan P. Kessler wrote: Hi, sorry, I know this is not directly related to postfix but I know that there are several very experienced people reading this list. My question is how you (the people that use and administer mailservers) handle the localpart case sensivity

Re: Case sensivity: Strict rfc5321 or reality compliance

2013-04-15 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Thanks to anybody for sharing your opinions and thoughts. I decided that the default rate limit functions will operate completely case-insensitive, because this seems to be what people (including me) expect. As most people also seem to have expected that behaviour in the past, I think this is one