Hello,
Am 11.02.2011 14:11, schrieb Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems):
Hi there,
(This is a re-posted message from our development mailing list.)
In our IRC channel, it was suggested to look at RFC 2821, section 2.4,
quoted as saying:
"However, exploiting the case sensitivity of mailbox local-parts
impedes interoperability and is discouraged."
The problem statement is as follows: The recipient is u...@domain.de,
and while the mailbox name is "u...@domain.de", or even "user", the
mail bounced.
Not completely aware of the full implications and/or codebase, I
wanted to put the topic on switching the default to be relaxed in the
case of case sensitivity out there for discussion.
Long story short; the proposal is to ship with a default
lmtp_downcase_rcpt of 1.
Sound OK for me.
When chaning upper/lowercases we always have to consider character sets.
For the user part it's no problem because here only basic characters are
allowed,
but what about a mailbox like: user@BÜCHER.CH ?
How is this represented in the store ?
Via the same IDN mapping as for the dns servers ?
If yes, then we don't have a problem,
but otherwise this will potentially cause problems in the future.
André
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