Author: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Date: To: Marc Haber CC: exim-dev Subject: 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.
