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 Message-ID: <CAN2%2BEpbP2pzWdES_7L=pvWrrCNVvQkYawe_xj2sfchDTKu1MiA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130527034721.36fe24ca.freebsd@edvax.de> 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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