A case of case sensitivity, and , maybe MS non-RFC compliance ?

[Julian Field]

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Yes, I know about this one, but haven't done anything about it yet. I
need to go through the code and check every single use of the sender and
recipient addresses to check that MailScanner ignores but preserves the
case. It's a very arduous job :-(

Spike Cacti wrote:

>Hi,
>    I have a problem where I have to send mails to a special mailing
>list that uses the "To" to authenticate. The problem is that they use
>things like aSffDef3454F at address.com as their e-mail address and
>MailScanner changes all headers to lower case.
>
>I took a look at the code and I found , in postfix.pm (I use postfix, I
>guess it's the same in other modules) :
>
> # Change for V4: returns lower-case $from and @to
>  sub ReadQf
>
>which does the lc{} job. I removed the lc to test and it worked.
>
>I was wondering why everything was changed to lower case ?
>
>RFC 821 states :
>
>This also applies to any symbols representing parameter values,
>such as "TO" or "to" for the forward-path.  Command codes and
>the argument fields are separated by one or more spaces.
>However, within the reverse-path and forward-path arguments
>case is important.  In particular, in some hosts the user
>"smith" is different from the user "Smith".
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>Spike
>
>
>
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