----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > read about 'locallowercase' in the courier man page.
> >
> > From: "Kiran Kumar Vangaveti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > Does any one have an idea howto make the email addresses case
> > insensitive.
> > >
>
>
> So, by default, courier is not RFC compliant? (in that the RFC's
> for email addresses specify that email addresses are always case
> insensitive?)
>
Careful! Sam is very pedantic about RFC compliance - and so he should
be!
===========================
RFC822:
<snip>
3.4.7. CASE INDEPENDENCE
Except as noted, alphabetic strings may be represented in any
combination of upper and lower case. The only syntactic units
which requires preservation of case information are:
- text
- qtext
- dtext
- ctext
- quoted-pair
- local-part, except "Postmaster"
<snip>
===========================
According to RFC822 the local-part "requires preservation of case
information", with the reserved account "postmaster" being specifically
excluded from that requirement. If an admin decides to ignor that withn
his domain, that's is his choice. The fact that it has become the
de-facto standard does not make it part of the RFC.
And Sam allows us to implement the non-standard behavious if we so
choose.
Patrick.
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