Re: File server case sensitivity

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From: Matt Madison
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:04

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In article <00965212.FAA366A0.9183@plasma.kth.se>, "Lars Blomberg, KTH Stockholm" <blomberg@plasma.kth.se> writes:
>We are currently running MX V3.1C with several mailing lists and file servers.
>Some of the file servers are associated with mailing lists to restrict access.
>It seems that for a user to be authorized to access such a file server the
>from-address must agree exactly (i.e., case-sensitively) with the address on
>the mailing list even if this has been specified with the /nocase option.
>Is this a bug in MX MLF or is our MX/mailing lists/file servers set up
>incorrectly?

Definitely a bug in MLF.  I forgot to update the FILESERV_CHECK_ACCESS routine
(in module FILESERV.B32) to handle NOCASE-set mailing list users.  Thanks
for finding it.

-Matt
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