Magnus Bodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 23 August 1999 at 14:50:07 +0200
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > I have qmail working quite satisfactory
> > > with help from lwq and all of you.
> > >
> > > I have now made 2 accounts
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Don't. It confuses people, and qmail gives you no mechanism for
> > distinguishing between them.
>
> Not just qmail. The very SMTP protocol that every MTA should conform
> to is IN-casesensitive.
Not true; the case of the user part is to be preserved by smtp, and
interpreted by the local delivery agent in whatever way is appropriate
locally.
However, so few systems actually used case-sensitive user names that
most users of email think the case doesn't matter. So if you try to
use the capability to have case-sensitive user names, you're going to
find that people have a very high error rate sending to them.
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