[rt-users] Suggestion for $RTAddressRegexp

[Ruslan Zakirov]

On 9/20/05, O'Brien, Kevin <Kevin.OBrien at sonyconnect.com> wrote:
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> True.  But I will quote RFC 2821: 
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> The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive. Therefore,
> SMTP implementations MUST take care to preserve the case of mailbox
> local-parts. Mailbox domains are not case sensitive. In particular, for some
> hosts the user "smith" is different from the user "Smith". However,
> exploiting the case sensitivity of mailbox local-parts impedes
> interoperability and is discouraged. 
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> So, I would imagine that a far superior number of the users have mailers
> that followed the heeding of the RFC and have not used case sensitivity. 
> Also, this is not modifying the address just telling the regex to ignore
> case when trying to determine if the address is an RT address.  At the very
> least, you would need to split the local-part and the domain since, per the
> RFC, domains are case insensitive. 
You can use (?i:blabla) to make part of the RE case insensetive. I
think Jesse will apply docs patch for this.

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> -=Kevin=- 
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> From: Patrick Morris [mailto:pmorris at hermesinfotech.com] 
>  Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:04 AM
>  To: O'Brien, Kevin; rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
>  Subject: RE: [rt-users] Suggestion for $RTAddressRegexp 
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> E-mail addresses aren't necessarily case-insensitive.  It depends on the
> mailer implementation.  I could list several mailers that are
> case-sensitive. 
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> From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
> [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf
> Of O'Brien, Kevin
>  Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 10:11 PM
>  To: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
>  Subject: [rt-users] Suggestion for $RTAddressRegexp
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> Since e-mail addresses are case-insensitive, I suggest adding //i to the
> RTAddressRegexp regular expressions in the following files: 
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> ./lib/RT/EmailParser.pm: line 438 
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> ./lib/RT/Interface/Email.pm: line 190 
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> -=Kevin=- 
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Best regards, Ruslan.