Christoph Schug wrote: > 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.
I disagree. Dbmail is *not* an SMTP server so we don't have to follow smtp rules. I'm sure that if dbmail starts bouncing mail because of strict case sensitive LHS matching, that would upset a lot of people. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
