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   Message 229 of 342   
   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   
   CHRS: UTF-8 2   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221   
   MSGID: 2:280/464 5e9ee9ce   
   REPLY: 3:640/1384 5e9ee77a   
   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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