dovecot - Sep 2019 - [Bug] Sieve vacation :addresses match only,> case-sensitive?

> I want to have it case-insensitive again, like in Pigeonhole version 0.4.24
i would also plea for making it case-insensitive again! We were hit by this too,
and I never saw any mail system in which the local Part ist Case sensitive!

Sincerly,
Klaus Steinberger


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On 11/09/2019 21:25, Klaus Steinberger via dovecot
wrote:
>> I want to have it case-insensitive again, like in Pigeonhole version
0.4.24
> i would also plea for making it case-insensitive again! We were hit by this
too,
> and I never saw any mail system in which the local Part ist Case sensitive!
We're looking into this. Tracking internally as DOP-1424.

Regards,

Stephan.

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 09:25:54PM +0200, Klaus Steinberger via dovecot
wrote:
> > I want to have it case-insensitive again, like in Pigeonhole version
0.4.24
> 
> i would also plea for making it case-insensitive again! We were hit by this
too,
> and I never saw any mail system in which the local Part ist Case sensitive!
Isn't the user name in the original Unix mail system (and presumably 
most of its descentants) case sensitive?  In which case it has to 
distinguish between mail sent to bob and to Bob?

- hendrik

On 11/09/2019 22:43, Hendrik Boom via dovecot wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 09:25:54PM +0200, Klaus Steinberger via dovecot
wrote:
>>> I want to have it case-insensitive again, like in Pigeonhole
version 0.4.24
>>
>> i would also plea for making it case-insensitive again! We were hit by
this too,
>> and I never saw any mail system in which the local Part ist Case
sensitive!
E.g.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9807909/are-email-addresses-case-sensitive
discusses this - including quotes from RFCs ...
> Isn't the user name in the original Unix mail system (and presumably 
> most of its descentants) case sensitive?  In which case it has to 
> distinguish between mail sent to bob and to Bob?
The local part of an email domain has absolutely nothing to do with any
(local or non-local) user account - and who says that there are any user
accounts/logins (apart from root and so-called system users) on the mail
system?
Yes, it *could* have something to do, and yes it actually may often be
the case but that's just a - intended or not intended - coincidence ....

MfG,
	Bernd
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 04:43:48PM -0400, Hendrik Boom via dovecot
wrote:
> Isn't the user name in the original Unix mail system (and presumably 
> most of its descentants) case sensitive?  In which case it has to 
> distinguish between mail sent to bob and to Bob?
Message handling systems MUST preserve case, systems delivering messages
to a mailbox SHOULD ignore case.

RFCs, especially earlier ones, require local-part to be case senstive
but that was a poorly thought out directive and the world largely
ignored it.

-- 
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On Sep 11, 2019, at 1:25 PM, Klaus Steinberger <Klaus.Steinberger at
physik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> I never saw any mail system in which the local Part ist Case sensitive!
Every Unix/Linux system (I?d say that represents the majority of mail systems)
has a case sensitive local part. Most mail admins have set their systems up to
normalize all users on lowercase names, but that is not and has not always been
the case.



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