On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Gyan Mathur wrote:
> I can see some problems with final delivery to local addresses. As
> far as I can see, if I send to PH10@??? (upper-case as in
> the days of Phoenix 8-) _and_ to ph10@???, then the message
> will get delivered, once, to your lower-case address
> ph10@???, and this needs to keep working.
That was my question. *Does* it need to keep working exactly like that?
In a nice clean general case, two copies will get delivered to the local
mailbox of user ph10. (Remember we are only talking about local
deliveries here - remote deliveries have always been case-sensitive in
the local part.)
> I suggest that
> there needs to be a way to force addresses to lower-case at some
> stage, ie not just to ignore case when matching, but actually to
> rewrite them to lower-case (not in the headers of course, just in the
> envelope address that Exim is looking at), and then to discard
> duplicates.
There is already a way to force the case - use a smartuser director, as
you have to do in a caseful situation. So you could configure to do this
if you wanted to.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
