MailScanner being a little TOO fussy about case?

[Julian Field]

It is case insensitive. I just tested it. And I just checked the code. 
It really is case insensitive, I've even doubled it up in 1 place just 
to be sure.

So I'm sorry, but I don't understand how you got your results.
:-(

Wess Bechard wrote:
> I have had this same problem too, and actually disabled phishing 
> detection when I noticed it.
>
> Version 4.50-12 here.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 15:12 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>> Hmmm...
>>
>> 	Just noticed this in an E-Mail message:
>>
>> MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.rglegal.com"
>> claiming to bewww.RGLegal.com
>>
>> 	Ok...  Other than needing a space after the "be" to be clearer, it's
>> fussing that the case doesn't match in an FQDN?  That's a bit much.  It
>> shouldn't be case sensitive there, should it?  While there MIGHT be a
>> problem with the paths in some URL's being case sensitive, a domain name
>> is case insensitive.  In fact, I quite often mix case on my own domain
>> name - wittsend.com == WittsEnd.com == WittsEnd.Com - depending on
>> context.
>>     

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