From: Andrzej Adam Filip (anfixl.wp.pl)
Date: Thu Jan 12 2006 - 14:42:23 CST

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

*YOU* ARE WRONG.

RFC recomendations "discontinues" the long standing tradition.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
[...] The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive.
Therefore, SMTP implementations MUST take care to preserve the case of
mailbox local-parts. Mailbox domains are not case sensitive.

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