[Bug] Sieve vacation :addresses match only,> case-sensitive?

Eray Aslan eraya at a21an.org
Thu Sep 12 08:26:29 EEST 2019


On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 04:43:48PM -0400, Hendrik Boom via dovecot wrote:
> Isn't the user name in the original Unix mail system (and presumably 
> most of its descentants) case sensitive?  In which case it has to 
> distinguish between mail sent to bob and to Bob?

Message handling systems MUST preserve case, systems delivering messages
to a mailbox SHOULD ignore case.

RFCs, especially earlier ones, require local-part to be case senstive
but that was a poorly thought out directive and the world largely
ignored it.

-- 
Eray


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