Subj : Packet password case insensitive or not?
To   : All
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Tue Apr 21 2020 01:58 pm

Hi All,

I was wondering about packet passwords, are they case insensitive or not?

FMail has always forced them to uppercase on entry in the configuration, and
does a case insensitive compare on the password contained in arrived packet
files.

fts-0001.016 just says this about the password:

 password   (some impls)
      eight bytes
      null padded

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

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

Bye, Wilfred.

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