Re: [Mailman-Developers] case-sensitive e-mail addresses

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "JRA" == Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    JRA> I'm afraid I must disagree: that section of 2821 implies that

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    JRA> *may be separate mailboxes*.

I understand that.
    
    JRA> Admittedly, it's a corner case, and very unlikely ever to
    JRA> bite us, but doing it that was *does* violate the standard.

Except that Mailman isn't an SMTP server, so it doesn't have to play
by those rules.  For a list server, I claim that allowing keys to
differ only by case is confusing and needless generalization.  In
practice, I don't remember it ever biting us.

-Barry

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