On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > Mail servers and mail clients do not treat email addresses as > case-insensitive. When encoding an LHS with base32, the case matters. > Using the wrong case will cause you to not find the SMIMEA / OPENPGPKEY > record.
This is not accurate. While domain part of an email address is case-insensitive, the case-sensitivity of the local-part is a local matter. SMTP relays MUST NOT change the case of the local part of envelope addresses. On arrival at the destination domain, that domain's mail system may choose to treat local-parts case insensitively, but remote systems must not rely on this. Therefore, <[email protected]> and <[email protected]> are a-priori distinct addresses except perhaps in the hands of the MTAs that handle example.com mail. [ The fact that most systems are in practice case-insensitive is not sufficient to invalidate the right of some to be case sensitive as they see fit. ] -- Viktor. _______________________________________________ dane mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane
