Tuning some defaults for 2.5: lmtp_downcase_rcpt

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Thu Feb 10 16:21:31 EST 2011


On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:
> In our IRC channel, it was suggested to look at RFC 2821, section 2.4, quoted 
> as saying:
> 
>  "However, exploiting the case sensitivity of mailbox local-parts impedes 
> interoperability and is discouraged."
> 
> The problem statement is as follows: The recipient is USER at DOMAIN.DE, and 
> while the mailbox name is "user at domain.de", or even "user", the mail bounced.
> 
> Not completely aware of the full implications and/or codebase, I wanted to put 
> the topic on switching the default to be relaxed in the case of case 
> sensitivity out there for discussion.
> 
> Long story short; the proposal is to ship with a default lmtp_downcase_rcpt of 
> 1.

I suggest asking people on cyrus-users.  If nobody objects with very valid
concerns, just change it.

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  Henrique Holschuh


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