plus addressing with postfix

[David R Bosso]

--On Friday, March 17, 2006 11:57 AM -0500 Steve Huston 
<huston at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:

> On 03/17/2006 11:51 AM, Joseph Brennan wrote:
>> Stefano Santoro <stefano at santoro.org> wrote:
>>> ... and if you plan to deliver to subfolders DO make sure that the
>>> subfolder names are all lowercase.
>>> INBOX.junk not INBOX.Junk
>> What makes this necessary?
>
> I would guess that's only true if you have the lmtp_downcase_recipient
> option turned on; but that's just a guess.

It's a postfix limitation at least in some cases:

<http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.postfix.users/browse_thread/thread/17e4053313f7a357/>

I'm not sure if this has changed with Postfix >2.1.  My staff and I never 
spent any time trying to create a patch.

-David

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