I asked this question before, but didn't get any response. I know someone out there knows the answer, so I thought I'd try again. My original message is quoted below, but the gist is this: when does case matter in email addressing, and does it ever matter when the address is for an AOL account? Ben Bednarz In a message dated 3/8/00 10:39:27 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Subj: [IMail Forum] case sensitive & AOL addressing Date: 3/8/00 10:39:27 AM Pacific Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a mail box setup on our IMail (4.07) system to forward to an AOL account. In the past, I've never worried about case-sensitive address, but this mailbox seems to have trouble unless we watch the case. That is, we have to set the forwarding address with mixed case or the mail will get rejected.. I am aware that some Unix systems can be sensitive about case in mail address, but I didn't think AOL fell into that cateogory. In fact, I've had a personal AOL account for many years, and have never had trouble with people writing to me in all lower case. Is it possible that the problem is not case, but something else is going on? I know that AOL's mail system (like everything else they do) is pretty funky. Attached below is a mail reject notice. Ben Bednarz BC Web ========================================= undeliverable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message follows. Received: from SMTP32-FWD by mail.loanjedi.com (SMTP32) id A00000043; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:20:30 PST Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:50:32 PST Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Postmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Undeliverable Mail X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v980922> Resent-From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:20:30 PST Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] undeliverable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message follows. Received: from SMTP32-FWD by mail.loanjedi.com (SMTP32) id A000002AE; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:50:30 PST Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:20:32 PST Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Postmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Undeliverable Mail X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v980922> Resent-From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:50:30 PST Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] undeliverable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message follows. Received: from SMTP32-FWD by mail.loanjedi.com (SMTP32) id A00000204; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:20:30 PST Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:50:43 PST Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Postmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Undeliverable Mail X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v980922> Resent-From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:20:30 PST Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] undeliverable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message follows. Received: from SMTP32-FWD by mail.loanjedi.com (SMTP32) id A00000224; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:50:30 PST Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:20:32 PST Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Postmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Undeliverable Mail X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v980922> [message truncated] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from rly-yg02.mx.aol.com (rly-yg02.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.2]) by air-yg02.mail.aol.com (v69.17) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Mar 2000 13:39:27 1900 Received: from list.ipswitch.com (list.ipswitch.com [156.21.1.21]) by rly-yg02.mx.aol.com (v69.17) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Mar 2000 13:38:59 1900 Received: from imo17.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.7] by list.ipswitch.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.00) id AE45DEE60166; Wed, 08 Mar 2000 13:39:01 -0500 Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by imo17.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v25.3.) id n.e.1622b3f (4330) for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:35:51 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:35:50 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 62 Subject: [IMail Forum] case sensitive & AOL addressing Precedence: bulk Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>
I have a mail box setup on our IMail (4.07) system to forward to an AOL account. In the past, I've never worried about case-sensitive address, but this mailbox seems to have trouble unless we watch the case. That is, we have to set the forwarding address with mixed case or the mail will get rejected.. I am aware that some Unix systems can be sensitive about case in mail address, but I didn't think AOL fell into that cateogory. In fact, I've had a personal AOL account for many years, and have never had trouble with people writing to me in all lower case. Is it possible that the problem is not case, but something else is going on? I know that AOL's mail system (like everything else they do) is pretty funky. Attached below is a mail reject notice. Ben Bednarz BC Web ========================================= undeliverable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message follows. Received: from SMTP32-FWD by mail.loanjedi.com (SMTP32) id A00000043; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:20:30 PST Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:50:32 PST Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Postmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Undeliverable Mail X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v980922> Resent-From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:20:30 PST Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] undeliverable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message follows. Received: from SMTP32-FWD by mail.loanjedi.com (SMTP32) id A000002AE; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:50:30 PST Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:20:32 PST Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Postmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Undeliverable Mail X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v980922> Resent-From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:50:30 PST Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] undeliverable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message follows. Received: from SMTP32-FWD by mail.loanjedi.com (SMTP32) id A00000204; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:20:30 PST Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:50:43 PST Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Postmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Undeliverable Mail X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v980922> Resent-From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:20:30 PST Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] undeliverable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message follows. Received: from SMTP32-FWD by mail.loanjedi.com (SMTP32) id A00000224; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:50:30 PST Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:20:32 PST Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Postmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Undeliverable Mail X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v980922> [message truncated] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list.
