MAIL-FROM case sensitive?

  > "Dale S. Johnson" <dsj at merit.edu> writes:
  > Anyone,
  > 
  >   Is email address authentication using the MAIL-FROM lines really supposed
  > to be case-sensitive?  It seems to be so on our implementation (and is 
  > causing a *lot* of questions and bounces).  

It is a regex and should not have any confusing side-effects.
As per RFC822 the localpart is indeed case-sensitive.
It is a local decision to ignore case on localparts.

  >   If it is intended this way, is there some gotcha we're likely to discover
  > if we make it case-insensitive?

I'll make a note for a warning in the documentation.
It should remain as is.

Daniel



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