On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:11:47 +0200 > Subject: case sensitivity > > I discovered by accident that lmtpd (or possibly deliver, or both) is > case-sensitive; mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will bounce with > > 550-Mailbox unknown. Either there is no mailbox associated with this > 550-name or you do not have authorization to see it. > > Is this intentional? It doesn't seem right; mail addresses are > supposed to be case insensitive.
Not quite. The spec (RFC2822 I think) mandates that mail domain names are case insensitive. The local part is case sensitive. > Can this be fixed in Cyrus, or do I have to set up my SMTP server > (Postfix) to lowercase the address before delivering each message > to Cyrus? Others have pointed out how to do this in Cyrus. I believe most modern MTAs have facilities for handling local parts as case insensitive. For example it's the default with Exim unless you set caseful_local_part as a router option. -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 1225 386101
