From: RTPUX1::RTPUX1::"MCNC!ESTHER.UUCP%UUNET.UU.NET!TA2@RTPARK.GE.COM" 14-JUN-1989 10:46 To: vmsnet@falcon.ge.com Subj: Set Forward Case Sensitivity Bob Tinkelman has observed a difference in VMS Mail's Set Forward command between VMS 4.7 and VMS 5.1. Specifically the forward address gets converted to uppercase even inside of quotes. First, a comment directly to Bob's problem. Then, some comments about where the problem may be coming from. Bob is effectively using Set Forward for aliases. My solution for aliases has been to create logical names. Using this method, I don't believe I have ever seen the case conversion problems Bob reports. ----- When we were finishing up UUCP_MAILSHR for 1.1, we discovered similar case conversion problems. (Actually, lack of conversion is a better description.) Everything worked fine on my VMS 5.1 system. As soon as we put it up on Jamie's 4.7 machine, things fell into a hole. We found that in VMS Mail, usernames and DECnet node names MUST be in uppercase. When you type them in to the Mail Send command, your typin gets upcased. Prior to UUCP_MAILSHR 1.1, local target addresses were getting converted to uppercase as a side effect of the way UUXQT passed the address on the MAIL/PROTOCOL command line. UUCP_MAILSHR 1.1 doesn't pass the target address to Mail in the same way. On VMS 4, we started getting lowercase usernames sent to Mail, who got real annoyed. You'll discover code in UUCP_MAIL.PAS to correct the case of local addresses. As I said, for VMS 5.1, we didn't have this problem - local addresses seem to get upcased correctly after we hand them from UUCP_MAILSHR to Mail itself. My guess is that the behavior that Bob observed is a wide-of-the-mark implementation related to the same thing. Somewhere, Mail is trying to cover up some problems with address case, and the solution has been to force case conversion to upper case. --- Tom Tom Allebrandi VMS User's Network Working Group Advanced Computer Consulting, Inc Internet: ta2@acci.com Charlottesville, VA, USA Bitnet: ta2%esther@virginia.edu 804 977 4272 UUCP: ta2@esther.uucp ...!uunet!virginia!esther!ta2 Bix: ta2 Pageswapper: US142404