Steve Perkins 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.
>
What the hell is everyone talking about?
From RFC 5231 (and the previous ones):
Verbs and argument values (e.g., "TO:" or "to:" in the RCPT command
and extension name keywords) are not case sensitive, with the sole
exception in this specification of a mailbox local-part (SMTP
Extensions may explicitly specify case-sensitive elements). That is,
a command verb, an argument value other than a mailbox local-part,
and free form text MAY be encoded in upper case, lower case, or any
mixture of upper and lower case with no impact on its meaning.
* The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive. *
Therefore, SMTP implementations MUST take care to preserve the case
of mailbox local-parts. In particular, for some hosts, the user
"smith" is different from the user "Smith". However, exploiting the
case sensitivity of mailbox local-parts impedes interoperability and
is discouraged. Mailbox domains follow normal DNS rules and are
hence not case sensitive.
(emphasis mine). If you can deliver mail case-sensitively, you should be
able to /retrieve/ mail case-sensitively. If your LDA/IMAP server
override this (per the recommendation), then so be it; but at that point
the case-folding is no longer the responsibility of the client.
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