ss@wanginst.UUCP (Sid Shapiro) (02/21/85)
Hi folks, I am running Ultrix (4.2bsd) on a vax. Back in the old days of 4.1, local address were case insensitive (I could mail to ss,SS,sS,Ss, and still get to me). Now that I am in 4.2/sendmail, case seems to make a difference. I read in MAILADDR(7) the following lines: "... Most hosts accept any mixture of case in user names, with the notable exception of MULTICS sites." I take that to mean the user names are case insensitive. I called the DEC support folks and was told that their interpretation was that usernames ARE case sensitive, also that there seemed to be no code in anyplace they looked that did case translations. So, 2 questions: 1. What does that line mean to you? and 2. Are your mailers case sensitive? (And if they are, how do you tell people who mail to you that they MUST use the correct case?) Thanks, people Sid Shapiro -- Wang Institute of Graduate Studies [apollo, bbncca, ucadmus, decvax, linus, masscomp]!wanginst!ss ss%wang-inst@Csnet-Relay.ARPA (617)649-9731
msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns) (02/23/85)
"...with the notable exception of MULTICS sites." This is nolonger the case. Multics sites accept usernames i#externally as non case sensitive. I.e. StJohns@MIT-MULTICS or stjohns@MIT-Multics both work fine. -- Mike St. Johns Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!msj StJohns@MIT-Multics.ARPA (404) 982-0035