On 9 November 1998, Jari Aalto+list.procmail
<jari(_dot_)aalto(_at_)poboxes(_dot_)com>
wrote:
|Sat 1998-11-07 Liviu Daia <daia(_at_)stoilow(_dot_)imar(_dot_)ro>
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| > > Seriously though, the non case sensitivity of email is
| > > probably (i'd like to know the history) a design decision, not
| > > unintentional.
|
| Like I said, it is case sensitive, it's sendmail that treats it
| as if it weren't.
Hm.
RFC 1036:/2.1.1. From
Note that in all host and domain names, upper and
lower case are considered the same, thus
"mark(_at_)cbosgd(_dot_)ATT(_dot_)COM",
"mark(_at_)cbosgd(_dot_)att(_dot_)com", and
"mark(_at_)CBosgD(_dot_)ATt(_dot_)COm" are all equivalent.
User names may or may not be case sensitive, for example,
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... which means MTAs should preserve the case of usernames, since
the recipient system may fall into the "may" cathegory. :-)
I've never met a system where Username would be case sensitive.
Umm, try using "Jari" instead of "jari" on a Unix system. :-)
Regards,
Liviu
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