[Dovecot] configure lmtp to deliver to email addresses case insensitively

Darren Pilgrim list_dovecot at bluerosetech.com
Tue Dec 17 23:56:26 EET 2013


On 12/17/2013 8:02 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> there are enough writing their address uppercase while the server was never configured
> that way, there are enough writing FirstnameLastname at domain.tld and you can hardly
> find a normal person who accepts that writing a message to "YOU at domain.tld" goes
> to a different person than "you at domain.tld" or bounce in one of the cases

There are also listservs and other things out there which case fold 
email addresses--some fold to lowercase, some to uppercase.  Current 
best practice is treat the entire email address as case insensitive.



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