Doesn't the case change violate RFC821 or 822? I seem to remember reading
that case in the user portion of the email address should never be changed
because the accounts "Bob" and "bob" are two completely different accounts
on a unix machine.
Jay
-----Original Message-----
From: Kai MacTane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 1:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A bug or am I being daft?
At 10/13/00 10:47 AM , Ben Cody Houston wrote:
>Basically, I'm trying to deliver mail to:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>so, I have an ~alias/.qmail-Bob:Hanson file... but it won't work. It will
>work if it's ~alias/.qmail-bob:hanson - should either one work?
No, only the latter one should work. See
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/incominguser.html#alias-dots. As it says, "Dots
are converted to colons, and uppercase is converted to lowercase."
--Kai MacTane
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