Why does this keep coming up? I thought email addresses were not supposed
to be case sensitive, isn't that in an RFC or something?
--Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Capitals in user mailing lists?
:Harald Hanche-Olsen writes:
: > It is more correct to say that qmail preserves case in the local part
: > of remote addresses, but converts to lower case for local addresses.
:
:This is what I mean by "qmail preserves case in the local part, but
:ignores case when matching against usernames or filenames." It's more
:accurate to say "qmail preserves case in the local part, but LOWERS
:case when matching against usernames or filenames."
:
:bash$ cat .qmail-lowercase
:|echo $LOCAL
:bash$ mail nelson-LowerCase
:Subject: testing
:test
:EOT
:bash$ grep LowerCase /var/log/maillog
:Jan 12 11:08:51 desk qmail: 916157331.672737 starting delivery 4700: msg
159784 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:Jan 12 11:08:51 desk qmail: 916157331.725758 delivery 4700: success:
nelson-LowerCase/did_0+0+1/
:bash$
:
:--
:-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
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