Not sure if it matters but RFC 2142 is from 1997 .RFC 2821 is from 2001. But as a matter of practicality, I would just do like google and make them case insensitive.
On Sep 27, 3:21 pm, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
