Serge Knystautas wrote:
>
> I documented in the MailAddress.java code (and as seen in the RFCs it
> references) that according to specs, the username portion of an email
> address is case sensitive, and the domain name part is case insensitive.
>
> In practice though, all of the email address is case-insensitive. It's
> actually an easy change to modify MailAddress.java's equals() method to do
> case insensitive for both.
MailAddress.equals() currently uses equalsIgnoreCase for both user and
host.
> We had talked about making this a server
> setting, so JAMES could either be case sensitive on the username part of the
> email address if you so choose, but we (I) never figured the best way to do
> this.
I think my suggestion for UserRepository (below) plus matching changes
for getInbox() should do the trick.
Will experiment and report back ...
Charles
> Serge Knystautas
> Loki Technologies
> http://www.lokitech.com/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fedor Karpelevitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:45 PM
> Subject: Re: User to lowercase...
>
> > Just my 2 cents.
> > I am 99% sure that emails are supposed to be case INsensitive (just as
> domain
> > names are). You can easily check it by looking at this email's "To:" field
> :-)
> >
> > I think that original case of the address should be preserved, but
> matching
> > should be case-insensitive. the easierst way to do it is
> > String.equalsIgnoreCase(String);
> >
> > fedor.
> >
> > On Wednesday 09 May 2001 14:10, you wrote:
> > > Good point, Rod,
> > > Also very irritating is if you submit your address as me@somewhere and
> > > get email for ME@SOMEWHERE !
> > > However, email addresses are supposed to be case sensitive (I'm 95%
> > > sure, off hand).
> > >
> > > So, another alternative would be to:
> > > 1) add a method containsCaseInsensitive(String name) to UserRepository
> > > 2) add a config element
> > > <allowCaseInsensitive>true</allowCaseInsensitive> to the james section.
> > > 3) amend isLocalUser(String userAccount) so that it checks
> > > UserRepository case sensitive/ insensitive as set by admin. This is the
> > > relevant method in MailetContext, I think. As used in RecipientIsLocal.
> > >
> > > Giving us the best of both worlds.
> > > Thoughts?
> > > Charles
> > >
> > > Rodrigo Zerlotti wrote:
> > > > What you all think about make the user match not "case sensitive",
> i.e.
> > > > add toLowerCase on all "matchRecipient" methods? I see more and more
> > > > errors comming from people trying to do "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" where
> should
> > > > be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > Rod~
> >
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