On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Phil Chambers wrote:
> We have some users who have upper case letters in their usernames (a legacy which
> would be a pain to have to remove). There are no instances where two usernames
> differ only in case and would not let that happen. We wish to have caseless e-mail
> addresses. So, given a user with a username of ANOther, we would wish to deliver a
> message addressed to another or ANOTHER, etc. to that user.
This will be no different in Exim 4.
> The way we cope at present is to have locally_caseless=false to preserve the upper
> case for the usernames, then a director does a lower-case lookup on a dbm file which
> contains an entry for each user like another:ANOther.
The same strategy (modified to put the equivalent of locally_caseless on
each director instead of setting a global option) will be available.
When you think about it, this is logically the only way of implementing
such a requirement.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
