lmtp and uppercase email addresses

Igor Brezac igor at ipass.net
Tue Oct 7 22:18:48 EDT 2003


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Avtar Gill wrote:

> Hi. I've searched this mailing list and come across some posts which
> indicate that cyrus 2.2 (I'm running Cyrus-IMAP 2.2.1 with Postfix 2.0.9
> on FreeBSD 4.8) is not case sensitive when dealing with user
> accounts/email addresses. That doesn't appear to be the case with my
> installation. Whenever the server receives an email where the address is
> all in uppercase letters I get the following error in my mail log..
>
> host /var/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/imap/socket/lmtp] said: 550-Mailbox
> unknown.  Either there is no mailbox associated with this 550-name or
> you do not have authorization to see it. 550 5.1.1 User unknown (in
> reply to RCPT TO command)
>
> Mail delivered to the same account gets accepted by cyrus if the address
> is in lowercase. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here so I would
> appreciate it if someone could point out what I've overlooked. Thanks!
>
> Here are the relevant parts of my imapd.conf file, I can provide the
> entire file if necessary..
>
> sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
> sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb
> sasldb_path: /usr/local/etc/sasldb2
> username_tolower: yes
>

You want lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes


> # /usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver -l
> 220 mail.tdneti.com LMTP Cyrus v2.2.1-BETA ready
> mail from:<root at localhost>
> 250 2.1.0 ok
> rcpt to:<AGILL at TDNETI.COM>
> 550-Mailbox unknown.  Either there is no mailbox associated with this
> 550-name or you do not have authorization to see it.
> 550 5.1.1 User unknown
>
> # /usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver -l
> 220 mail.tdneti.com LMTP Cyrus v2.2.1-BETA ready
> mail from:<root at localhost>
> 250 2.1.0 ok
> rcpt to:<agill at tdneti.com>
> 250 2.1.5 ok
>
>
>

-- 
Igor




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