I was curious about this so I looked it up. Technically speaking, an email address (the user, or local mailbox segment before the @domain.com) *is* actually case sensitive (cf RFC2821 - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html) and handling of this is managed by the SMTP server. However, in all my years of interneting I've never once come across an instance where an email of mine has been refused or mis-delivered due to its case being wrong (at least, that I know of), and the RFC does discourage discrimination by case.
/DaViD Mc londON, UK -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary D. Sent: 05 May 2010 20:31 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] E-mail addreses for TSM administrators If memory serves, at laeast smtp mail adresses are case insensative anyway. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 3:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] E-mail addreses for TSM administrators My site is preparing for a major restructuring of our TSM infrastructure. Some of the planned changes entail keeping track of the e-mail addresses of TSM administrators. The 'register admin' and 'update admin' commands provide for storing an e-mail address as part of the definition of an administrator. I have experimented with this facility on a 5.5.4.0 test server running under mainframe Linux. I am entering the addresses with the user name portion in mixed case. I have tried entering addresses without quotation marks, with single quotation marks, and with double quotation marks. So far, 'query admin' and related 'select' commands have always shown the address in lower case only, regardless of the way the address was entered. What am I doing wrong? No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.814 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2852 - Release Date: 05/03/10 19:27:00
