[PATCH][CVS IMAPd 2.1] lmtp_downcase_rcpt implementation (2)
Lawrence Greenfield
leg+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Jan 13 16:32:24 EST 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:31:15 -0500
From: John Alton Tamplin <jtampli at sph.emory.edu>
Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
>I'm kinda unhappy about the limited scope of the patch. It makes
>usernames case-insensitive during delivery, but they're case-sensitive
>everywhere else. I'm not sure this is a great idea.
>
>Maybe a global switch of case-sensitive mailbox names would make more
>sense (thus LeG+detail -> user.leg.Detail, and "LEG" could log
>in). I'm not sure, though.
>
>
I made that suggestion, and the only response at the time was negative.
I'm very fickle.
I think also a global case-sensitivity switch is considerably hard
than the patch Henrique proposed, but somehow I feel that the patch
Henrique proposed better belongs in the MTA.
I dunno. Maybe we should just commit it, solve this problem, and go on
with life.
Larry
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