From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 27 03:31:18 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A219FF9C for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 03:31:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f43.google.com (mail-ee0-f43.google.com [74.125.83.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCCAE1E for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 03:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f43.google.com with SMTP id d41so3781642eek.16 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 20:31:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=/gBziqpLvTu9d2c+c7pBynF9IPp/CXKZCRfXkOe8lmo=; b=wqEVFnOlv+G545y1Sx/CTLEQARbVyuMOJhjCyaf5E/bZomtkB2q0gRAslpQSKYwmWG bjim6zNROI9FUwTtWgz9yDDTUJCmYa8Li96WvzhccOvyso9X+LuBvOiqbXwilcYZuKto WLB16x0APlr/dAUrAtMWGFAB86tqmfTOlCtixYMkj3WtUbn/TuGD8pWjR14at70WjClb 9pUC01wPx/ARl0coORccUJLqEXNptTjFwq6U1cmMt5EbmGbhCC7TJoByQMEKfEfi07ly NnAcTpV1EBwbQbIRzfVdGYBUmWftMkj6cK4Ez2JM+TH6I+cOTb/nr1RliWItYsjfnTVo swdQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.14.182.5 with SMTP id n5mr8178797eem.151.1369625469695; Sun, 26 May 2013 20:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.15.99.199 with HTTP; Sun, 26 May 2013 20:31:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130527034721.36fe24ca.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20130527031712.a6cbecf2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20130527034721.36fe24ca.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 21:31:09 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo From: Modulok To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Michael Sierchio , FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 03:31:18 -0000 >> Everything to the right of the @ is indeed case insensitive, but >> everything >> to the left might be case sensitive, depending on local policy. This >> means >> you must preserve the case of everything to the left of the @ sign. > > According to the link provided by Erich Dollansky, FreeBSD's > default sendmail.cf setting of > > Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5 > > needs to be added the "u" option to the F= parameter to preserve > the uppercase letters in the the left side (username) of the > address. Maybe this additiion is required in other cf files > containing Mlocal settings too? Of course it would be nice if > there was a corresponding setting for the mc files which the > cf files are usually generated from... So, best practices aside, this would be a bug in the default config? (i.e. can I celebrate my bug-finding yet?) Cheers! -Modulok-