On Thu, Dec 28, 2006, Paul J Stevens wrote:

> Michael Monnerie wrote:
> > already. I heard in some RFC they say that upper/lowercase should be a 
> > difference, but I never saw that in live use.
> 
> That's incorrect. Email addresses are case-insensitive.

Am I missing something? RFC 2821 clearly states ...

| The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive.
| Therefore, SMTP implementations MUST take care to preserve the case
| of mailbox local-parts. Mailbox domains are not case sensitive. In
| particular, for some hosts the user "smith" is different from the
| user "Smith". However, exploiting the case sensitivity of mailbox
| local-parts impedes interoperability and is discouraged.

I would rather expect, that this behaviour is maintained even in some
backend. Even if it's not common case to have two different email
addresses [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], IMHO any serious
email software should be able to behave RFC compliant by default.

-cs
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