Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 01:29:02PM +0200,
> Magnus Bodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Note that qmail folds letters to lower case, which actually is correct
>> -- but only for the postmaster address.
>
>No. Except for postmaster and the null address 'local' parts of the address can
>be treated however the local site wants. Case can be significant or not.
>The broken mail servers are the ones that treat different encodings of
>the same address as different.
No, the broken mail servers are the ones that don't preserve the case
on *remote* local parts. The RFC's allow systems to use either case
sensitive or case insensitive local parts--which is what your first
sentence says, so maybe the second sentence was a typo.
-Dave
