possible courier bug?

Igor Gueths igueths at lava-net.com
Wed Mar 10 21:14:02 EST 2004


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Are you using Courier on your Linux system?
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:10:25PM -0600, Glenn Ervin at Home wrote:
> My account is set up as:
> glennervin at cableone.net
> and I have changed it to:
> GlennErvin at cableone.net
> In my return address settings under the account settings.
> In the second example, the first letters of my first & last name are
> capitalized.
> I can type it in either way, and it still goes through fine.
> But this is on my winblows system, but that should not matter.
> 
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> From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at lava-net.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:26 PM
> Subject: possible courier bug?
> 
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> Hi all. I just recently set up my girlfriend's e-mail account on my
> system. The problem is that the first character of her username is upper
> case instead of lower case. When I tried sending a message from a remote
> machine I have access to to her e-mail address (changed the first
> character to lower case) to see if Courier would handle the case
> propperly, Courier returned a 550 User unknown message to the relaying
> server that was trying to deliver mail. Now someone correct me if I am
> wrong, but I seem to recall that the SMTP RFC says something to the
> effect that the protocol is supposed to ignore the case? In other words,
> be case insensitive? Does anyone know if this is perhaps a bug in
> Courier, or is the behavior I am experiencing normal? Thanks!
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