Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!decwrl!pa.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!jch From: jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: A couple of questions... Keywords: mh case-conversion Message-ID: <1991Feb12.140246.5232@hollie.rdg.dec.com> Date: 12 Feb 91 14:02:46 GMT References: <5088@atexnet.UUCP> <27AA0231.20552@ics.uci.edu> <1991Feb5.133348.12525@hollie.rdg.dec.com> <1991Feb5.155042.1625@mp.cs.niu.edu> Sender: news@hollie.rdg.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 15 In article <1991Feb5.155042.1625@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: |> |> I second the sentiment about case sensitivity. It would be really nice |> if the address 'Mike' were an alias to be looked up in my aliases file, but |> the address 'mike' referred to the local user on this system. Unfortunately |> MH does not cooperate. Can we at least have a compile time option to turn |> off the case-insensitive processing of names and aliases? |> The problem is not case sensitivity, the problem is case conversion. MH should probably not be case sensitive, but, equally, it probably should not convert everything to lower case. Sendmail is case-insensitive, but when I send mail to "Haxby" the case is preserved (provided I don't use MH for posting!) In the spirit of RFC1123 (the bit about local-parts) MH shouldn't assume that the destination MTA (to whom the local-part belongs) is case insensitive. -- John Haxby, Definitively Wrong. Digital Reading, England <...!ukc!wessex!jch>