I wouldn't be the reputation of a crooked politician that nobody uses case 
sensitive local parts. The golden rul for e-mail is to use the address that the 
intended recipient gave you and don't try to make it prettier.

Reading the RFCs isn't dangerous; reading urban legends about them is. RFC 5321 
and 5322 don't require that the local part be case sensitive, they simply 
permit it.



--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Phil Smith III <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 5, 2019 4:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Rexx not processing email formatting

Seymour J Metz wrote:

>With rare exceptions, header fields are case insensitive.



And one of those rare exceptions is itself exceptional: the left-hand part of 
an email address (the "lists" in "[email protected]") is theoretically 
case-sensitive per the RFC. But sanity prevailed, and nobody but nobody 
implements that way (sure would have made mainframe email fun!). So if you're 
digging into the RFCs, beware.


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