[PATCH][CVS IMAPd 2.1] lmtp_downcase_rcpt implementation (Re: Case Sensitivity)

[Scott Smith]

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

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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
> > <hmh at debian.org> wrote:
> > >On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
> > >>--On Tuesday, December 24, 2002 12:01 AM -0200 Henrique de Moraes
> > >>Holschuh  <hmh at debian.org> 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...
>
> --
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>   them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>   where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>   Henrique Holschuh
>