http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2142
Says that mailbox names are supposed to be case insensitive. -Thadeus On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]>wrote: > RFC 2142 Section 2, Paragraph 2 > > 2. INVARIANT..... > > > Mailbox names must be recognized independent of character case. For > > example, POSTMASTER, postmaster, Postmaster, PostMaster, and even > PoStMaStEr are to be treated the same, with delivery to the same > mailbox. > > Implementations of these well known names need to take account of the > > > expectations of the senders who will use them. Sending back an > automatic mail acknowledgement is usually helpful (though we suggest > caution against the possibility of "duelling mail robots" and the > > > resulting mail loops). > > > > -Thadeus > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:15 PM, mdipierro <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> It is not obvious to me that upper and lower case in emails should be >> equivalent? Is the an RFC about this? >> >> On Sep 27, 11:46 am, "mr.freeze" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I use a custom auth table and apply the TO_LOWER validator on email >> > and username for this reason. I agree, something like this should be >> > done in the default auth table. >> > >> > On Sep 27, 2:07 am, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > If you sign up with an account that has a capital letter in the email, >> it >> > > will say invalid login when you attempt to sign in. >> > >> > > It only works if your email is all lower case. >> > >> > > I have requires email confirmation, and requires approval turned on. >> > >> > > Also, the email field seems to be case SENSITIVE, meaning I can sign >> up with >> > > the same email if I capitalize different letters. >> > >> > > -Thadeus >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
