> From: "Austad, Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:15:03 -0500
>
> Doesn't the case change violate RFC821 or 822? I seem to remember reading
> that case in the user portion of the email address should never be changed
> because the accounts "Bob" and "bob" are two completely different accounts
> on a unix machine.
The rfc says not to change it on mail that a host is relaying, but it leaves
it up the the host to do what's appropriate for local addresses. It's really
the only reasonable thing they could have specified in a world where some
systems have mixed case and some don't.
Whether or not qmail should fold addresses into lower case is debatable, but
the RFC doesn't give any guidance since it was written to be able to work on
systems where folding case is a requirement.
Chris
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