why h flag for Muucp ?

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From: Richard Doty
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 00:40

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Most of the sendmail.cf files I have at hand specify the h flag for the
uucp mailer.  This preserves case in the hostname, and I wonder "why do
that?"

Recently I saw a message fail because sendmail found a
case-insensitive match and handed off to a case-sensitive program,
namely uux.

Is there some historical or otherwise reasonable explanation for this?

Thanks,

Richard Doty.

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Subject: why h flag for Muucp ?
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