From: Sam Roberts (no email)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 22:00:53 EDT
Quoting Chris Audley <>, who wrote:
> Why is this? None of the MTAs I've tested are case sensitive in the
Because domain's are case-insensitive, according to the DNS RFCs, and the
interpretation of the local-part of an address is completely up to the end
system, accorging to RFC [2]822. I don't know about the common MTAs, but
there is nothing preventing two users having the names Sam and sam on a unix
system, other than common sense.
> local-part of the address. I regularly recieve mail to my account in a mix
> of cases and it comes through fine.
>
> Chris Audley
>
>
> err, maybe you'd better make that
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lawrence Greenfield" <leg+@andrew.cmu.edu>
> To: <>; "Shelley Waltz"
> <>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Vacation Sieve
>
> > It [sieve rules] should be case sensitive for the stuff on the left side
> of the
> > "@", and case-insensitive for the stuff on the right side of the "@".
-- Sam Roberts <> (Vivez sans temps mort!)
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