Re: lower case email address for delivery

2020-11-29 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 12:48:09AM +1000, Nikolai Lusan wrote: however the domain part of the address shouldn't be case sensitive. This is only kind of true. In the DNS, domain names match in a case-insensitive but case-preserving way, _only if_ you are talking about an ASCII letter (i.e. a-

Re: lower case email address for delivery

2020-11-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Nov 2020, at 9:48, Nikolai Lusan wrote: Traditionally SMTP systems forced everything to be lower case This is not true. RFC821 and RFC822 (1982) both define the local part of email addresses as including upper or lower case letters and optionally case-sensitive with the sole exception

Re: myorigin will not be honored

2020-11-29 Thread Johannes Black
Okay thanks, I will investigate further. On 29.11.2020 18:11, Wietse Venema wrote: Johannes Black: Hi, I am using Debian 10 and I am bulding a server with a mail.someurl.com hostname and an MX entry for someurl.com. I have setup myorigin = /etc/mailname and /etc/mailname has someurl.com a

Re: myorigin will not be honored

2020-11-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Johannes Black: > Hi, > > I am using Debian 10 and I am bulding a server with a mail.someurl.com > hostname and an MX entry for someurl.com. > > I have setup > > myorigin = /etc/mailname > > and /etc/mailname has > > someurl.com > > as an entry. > > If I test it with > > echo "test"| mail

myorigin will not be honored

2020-11-29 Thread Johannes Black
Hi, I am using Debian 10 and I am bulding a server with a mail.someurl.com hostname and an MX entry for someurl.com. I have setup myorigin = /etc/mailname and /etc/mailname has someurl.com as an entry. If I test it with echo "test"| mail destination-addr...@gmail.com (mail comes from th

Re: lower case email address for delivery

2020-11-29 Thread Michael Ströder
On 11/29/20 3:48 PM, Nikolai Lusan wrote: > Traditionally SMTP systems forced everything to be lower case ... but > then people like Microsoft started making MTA's that where case > sensitive for the reciever part of the email address (at the time this > was not RFC complianat behaviour). IIRC the

Re: lower case email address for delivery

2020-11-29 Thread Nikolai Lusan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sat, 2020-11-28 at 11:30 +0100, Juerg Reimann wrote: FWIW it looks like a dovecot/lda issue. Traditionally SMTP systems forced everything to be lower case ... but then people like Microsoft started making MTA's that where case sensitive for the