On 2005-04-04 13:37:58 -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > FWIW, IIRC, e-mail addresses are not required to be treated as case > insensitive. How to interpret what comes on the left-hand side of the > '@' is the purview of the individual e-mail system, which can decide > if it is case-sensitive or not (again, IIRC). I'm not specifically > aware of any mail systems which treat th LHS as case sensitive, but I > feel as though I've heard of mail systems which do. Having only used > sendmail for years, the rest have escaped my attention... Sendmail can be configured to be case-sensitive. I don't think many people turn that option on, though. There may be some schemes which generate mail addresses automatically (e.g. for mailing-lists, trouble-ticket systems, address-tagging) which are case-sensitive (e.g. by including a base64-encoded hash in the address). hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer \Beta means "we're down to fixing misspelled comments in |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR \the source, and you might run into a memory leak if | | | hjp@xxxxxxxxx \you enable embedded haskell as a loadable module and __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ \write your plugins upside-down in lisp". --ae@xxxxxx
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