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Date:      Sun, 26 May 2013 21:31:09 -0600
From:      Modulok <modulok@gmail.com>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo
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References:  <CAN2%2BEpbZgS5rNKRs=GduqS54tVrDYFbO%2BgLAnbyFHS-sUAq2Pw@mail.gmail.com> <20130527031712.a6cbecf2.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAHu1Y71WKX_Psywjwg_y1t4GCS20g6j1P5adBcORkcz9O%2Bu0GQ@mail.gmail.com> <20130527034721.36fe24ca.freebsd@edvax.de>

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>> 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-



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