[rt-users] Email addresses case insensitive (RT 2.0.11)

[darren chamberlain]

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* Robert Spier <rspier at pobox.com> [2003-04-23 13:13]:
> Are you saying that your client has two addresses:
> 
> bob at company.com
> 
> and
> 
> BOB at company.com
> 
> and they are two different people?

Technically, bob and BOB refer to _mailboxes_, which is not the same
thing as _people_.

> Your client has a very broken email system.

Well...

> I can't find the exact quite in RFC2822 (or related) which defines
> case insensitivity, but it is generally accepted (and assumed) that
> email addresses (like domain names) are case insensitive.  Any system
> which violates this is going to be very unhappy.

RFC2822 specifies that the left hand side (the "local part") is
implementation specific; specifically, see section 3.4.1.  Sendmail's
implementation (the most common, and, historically speaking, the primary
reference implementation) falls back to case-insensitive local-part
matching if a literal match is not found.

(darren)

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