On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote: > Hi there, > > (This is a re-posted message from our development mailing list.) > > In our IRC channel, it was suggested to look at RFC 2821, section 2.4, quoted > as saying: > > "However, exploiting the case sensitivity of mailbox local-parts impedes > interoperability and is discouraged." > > The problem statement is as follows: The recipient is USER@xxxxxxxxx, and > while the mailbox name is "user@xxxxxxxxx", or even "user", the mail bounced. > > Not completely aware of the full implications and/or codebase, I wanted to put > the topic on switching the default to be relaxed in the case of case > sensitivity out there for discussion. > > Long story short; the proposal is to ship with a default lmtp_downcase_rcpt of > 1. We use lmtp_downcase_rcpt=1 without any problems here. However, our email addresses only contain US-ASCII characters. Andy ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
