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Re: Address Extensions with virtual maps are always converted to lowercase.

From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Thu Jan 12 2006 - 13:13:27 CST

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:53:20PM +0100, Remko Molier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For the last two days I have been - unsuccessfully - trying to get the
> address extension in postfix to work for address extensions that use
> capitals letters (e.g. rmolier+Junkmore-it.com) and are mapped
> (virtual) to different e-mail addresses. In one way or the other postfix
> always seems to convert them to lowercase.
>
> Looking at the code, it made it obvious that in global/mail_addr_map.c
> the extension, which is taken from the call to mail_addr_find() and
> saved for propagating the extension to the addresses found is always in
> lowercase.
>

This is not a bug. It is intentional behaviour. RFC822 addresses are case
insensitive. If your configuration depends on the case of the extension,
it is wrong.

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        Viktor.

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