On Thu, 28 May 2009, Rick wrote: > Following up on my previous posts, I'm still experiencing this issue of > sometimes email being delivered as upper case (which ends up in the file > system as upper case). I appreciate the guidance I've received, but I hate > putting fixes in place without understanding what's broken. > > Empirical testing shows SOME email addresses appear to stay upper case when > they deliver, and others do not. > > Example: > telnet mail.example.com 25 > EHLO corwyn.net > MAIL FROM: dove...@corwyn.net > RCPT TO: test...@migration.example.com > DATA > SUBJECT: TEST CAPS > . > > delivers mail to /var/spool/mail/migration.EXAMPLE.COM (which would be bad, > as part of it is upper case). > > Yet the EXACT same sequence using tes...@migration.example.com, > test2...@migration.example.com, test...@migration.example.com all deliver > to /var/spool/mail/migration.example.com. Only > test...@migration.example.com causes mail to be delivered without being > lower-cased. (WTF?!?)
Odd. I cannot reproduce that problem here, also using dovecot as virtual_transport. Just to be sure, you are passing at least the 'hu' flags to pipe(8) for dovecot's LDA, right? These two flags ensure case-folding, which local(8) does by default. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
