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Author: Michael Sprague
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] desire for free case
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:42:19PM -0700, Robert Van Horn wrote:
> Hi, I have users that would prefer to ignore case in
> their email addresses. tiffany would like to be able to
> receive email as Tiffany, or tiFfany for that matter.
> The section in the documentation about case of local parts
> doesn't seem to fit this situation but I could be wrong.
> Is it standard to put the possibilities in the aliases file?
>
> What should I do?
> Right now, anything that isn't a valid username gets rejected
> as it should.
>
> exim4, cyrus21


Hi Bob,

I think you're problem is with cyrus, not exim. I'm pretty sure exim
ignores case when processing a message. I haven't used cyrus in a while
but I think the mailbox names are case sensitive. So while exim will
determine that message for Tiffany should go in tiffany's mailbox, cyrus
will reject it so exim will reject it.

Again, working from memory here, but I think I solved this problem in
the past by having exim convert the recipient to all lower case and
making sure that all mailboxes were in lower case. If I can find the
exact config info I'll post it.

thanks,
mikeS

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