Damn, I fouind it earlier. Do a search for canonical, and/or lowercase and/or regex.
It's actually funny: Back in ~2000 Weitse sent several E-mails stating that Postfix lowercased everything because he felt it was simply unacceptable to require end users to know what CaPiTaLiZaTiOn (he even typed it that way!) a user name was, even though the RFC specified that the MTA be case sensitive. Cut to earlier this year, and he decides to stop lowercasing everything... hmmm... Scott -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``Chews? I'll take charleston http://storm.lackluster.net/~scott/ chews for SIXTEEN MILLIONS!!'' On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: > > --On Tuesday, December 24, 2002 11:57 PM -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: > > >>--On Tuesday, December 24, 2002 12:01 AM -0200 Henrique de Moraes > > >>Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Here's the cleaned up patch, against 2.1 CVS. It could be enhanced > > >>> not to touch the +fooobar part of the recipient, I suppose. > > >> > > >>I guess I'm mostly of the opinion that this is an MTA job, as most other > > >>recipient rewriting is, especially since Cyrus mailboxes are case > > >>sensitive. > > > > > >Well, at least part of the MTA crew disagreed, and that was why it was > > >removed from lmtp delivery in postfix. > > > > Well, I understand why they don't want to force all LMTP deliveries to be > > downcases. But Postfix must have some method of address rewriting. > > It does, but AFAIK, it is a royal pain to tell it to lowercase everything > using rewrites (rewrites in postfix are table based). Lots of overhead... > > I foresee trouble with postfix in that area, so I will be enhancing that > patch shortly. It is MTA-agnostic, and it might help people with other > MTAs in the future anyway. > > Mind you, I plan to request postfix lmtp to be configurable to lowercase > everything _as well_, but I must locate and read the thread that caused > people to switch that off in the first place... > > -- > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh >
