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From: e07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail converts prognames to lowercase.
Keywords: queue run, program names to lowercase
Message-ID: <1202@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 11 Apr 91 08:36:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: nikhefh.1202
References: <1991Apr4.114126.2153@dde.dk>
Sender: e07@nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar)
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In article <1991Apr4.114126.2153@dde.dk>, fll@dde.dk (Flemming Lau) writes:
> My local mailer does not have the 'u' flag (do not map to lowercase) set.
> My prog mailer does have the 'u' flag set.
> [ ..... ] During queue runs:
> The command found in .forward is converted to lowercase
> and the excute fails since the command cannot be found.

The mapping to lowercase is not very consistent. It is rather
complicated to analyze exactly when and why such mappings are done.
If you don't have the mailer flag 'u' turned on, you will probably
have no big surprises.

The easiest fix to always retain the case in "|ProGram" recipients
is to let the routine makelower() in util.c NOT do the conversion
to lower case within quoted strings.
This fix is present in the IDA variants (and trivial to implement
if you don't use IDA).
You then don't need the 'u' flag in the prog mailer.

Eric Wassenaar
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