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   21 Apr 20 20:39, you wrote to Alan Ianson:   
      
    WV>>> I was wondering about packet passwords, are they case   
    WV>>> insensitive or not?   
      
    AI>> In all my experience packet, areafix and filefix passwords have   
    AI>> been case insensitive.   
      
   I remember that we always used uppercase packet passwords. I assumed that   
   passwords are case insensitive, but I think I never tried to use lowercase in   
   the config.   
      
    WV> Packet and areafix passwords are case insensitive in FMail. But   
    WV> according to Nick there are tossers that are not...   
      
   Crashmail and Squish use stricmp() for the packet passwords -> case   
   insensitive.   
      
   How does stricmp compare strings with high ascii characters?   
      
    AI>> It has always been my hope that no one will write a tosser with   
    AI>> case sensitive passwords!   
      
    WV> What's the problem? You can always configure the case sensitive tosser   
    WV> with an all uppercase (or lowercase) password to communicate with a   
    WV> case insensitive tosser.   
      
   Right, uppercase passwords should work with every tosser.   
      
    WV> And that's what I'm trying to find out, if there could be a problem if   
    WV> I change FMails behaviour. I'm not seeing it, but I can't think of   
    WV> everything. ;)   
      
   I would say in theory there should be less problems, if FMail were able to   
   send mixed case passwords.   
      
   Maybe we should use hex notation for the passwords, so all 255 characters can   
   be used for better security ;).   
      
      
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