Email addresses are case insensitive, but usernames don't have to be and frequently are not. Since many multi-domain systems use the email address as username, there is some relevance.
- Arne Berglund System Administrator, Internet Services Lane Education Service District Eugene, OR ______________ On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:20:28 +0000, Steve Perkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Pretty stupid thread. > > Everyone in the whole world knows that email addresses are case > insensitive. Why on earth would case matter? > > Thats like having two domains, www.xyz.com compared to Www.xyz.com > > Like I said, pretty stupid. > > xxx > > > > > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:12:36 -0800, Arne Berglund > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I do the force to lower case on my IMAP server (Dovecot). Users can > enter >> jdoe, Jdoe, JDoe or JDOE and all work. In my mind, the IMAP server is > where >> this should happen, not the client. >> >> - >> Arne Berglund >> System Administrator, Internet Services >> Lane Education Service District >> Eugene, OR >> ______________ >> >> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:03:41 +0100, tobi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Am 19.12.2009 01:58, schrieb Mark Little: >>>> Personally I don't think forcing lowercase for usernames is bad.. and >> if >>>> you really want to compare with other clients then I think you should >> be >>>> comparing with other webmail clients. I don't have a Hotmail account, >>>> but >>>> I just tested with Gmail by capitalising 3 of the letters in my login >>>> name >>>> and it logged in just fine. >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> >>> I did not mean that lowercase usernames is bad. I just thought that it >>> would be possible to turn it off in roundcube >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> tobi >>> _______________________________________________ >>> List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/users/ >> _______________________________________________ >> List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/users/ _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/users/
