Re: [exim-dev] exim overzealously cleaning local parts of ma…

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Autor: Kjetil Torgrim Homme
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A: Marc Haber
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Assumpte: Re: [exim-dev] exim overzealously cleaning local parts of mail addresses
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 16:35 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> I am now wondering whether exim is actually supposed to remove
> backslashes


yes. see RFC 2821. a backslash only protects the next characters.
consider the e-mail address <Smith\,John@???>

> and mess with the character case of the local part while
> routing and would like to hear your comments (or is that more a topic
> for exim-users?)


see caseful_local_part. if you want case-insensitive matching, you need
to make sure your source for usernames is normalised to just lower case.

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Kjetil T.