On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:27:24AM -0400,
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
By different encodings I was referring to address encodings such as
"local"@example.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] being treated differently.
There are at least some Microsoft mail servers broken in that they
treat these address encodings differently.
