Case sensitve user/mailbox names

[Patrick Welche]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:18:50AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
..
> Hmmm. I think this may have something to do with the method being used to 
> get the messages from Exim to Cyrus.
> 
> There are (at least) four ways to do that:
> 
> 1) Exim can pipe the messages to the Cyrus "deliver" command.
> 
> 2) The Exim LMTP transport can deliver to Cyrus' lmtpd over a Unix socket.
> 
> 3) The Exim LMTP transport can deliver to Cyrus' "deliver" command via a 
> pipe.
> 
> 4) The Exim SMTP transport (in LMTP protocol mode) can deliver to Cyrus' 
> lmtpd over a TCP/IP socket, with or without SMTP authentication.
> 
> I am currently using method 4. I don't have time to test the different 
> methods to see how they handle caseful local parts, and there could 
> certainly be a bug in Exim in the LMTP transport. When I first set up Exim 
> 4.x, I was using method 3 and most definitely had to lowercase local parts 
> before sending them to Cyrus.
> 

Ah - I'm using

cyrus_delivery:
  driver = lmtp
  command = "/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -l"  
  batch_max = 20
  user = cyrus

as per the cyrus documentation which I think counts as 3)...

Cheers,

Patrick