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 Message 229 
 Wilfred van Velzen to Paul Quinn 
 Re: Packet password case insensitive or  
 21 Apr 20 14:36:54 
 
TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes
TZUTC: 0200
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PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221
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Hi Paul,

On 2020-04-21 22:26:53, you wrote to me:

 WV>> "bytes": So it could be anything, including "high ascii".

 WV>> When I look at the packets I receive, there are some with lower or
 WV>> even mixed case passwords. (So it's a good thing FMail does a case
 WV>> insensitive compare, otherwise it wouldn't match against the
 WV>> configured uppercase password)

 PQ> This has been unsteady 'ground' for me.  What is FMail doing when it's
 PQ> coding the forced uppercase, after having potential mixedcase entered in
 PQ> the setup?

You can't enter mixed or lowercase into the configuration program, only
uppercase. And when someone updates the packet password through areafix it's
converted to uppercase before storing in the configuration file. So on
outgoing packet files the packet password is always uppercase only.

Bye, Wilfred.

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