On 12 Jan 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Adam D. McKenna writes:
> > 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?
>
> The hostname is case-insensitive. The local part *can* be
> case-sensitive, although it's a bad idea since, as you demonstrated,
> many people think email addresses are not case sensitive.
>
Most likely because the handling of postmaster is REQUIRED to be case
insensitive....
postmaster = PostMaster = PoStMaStEr = however else you want to munge the
case of the name :)
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