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If I send an email to John@company.com instead of john@company.com and the server of company.com is configured to be case sensitive, then john will never see my
by sandov 9y ago
If I send an email to John@company.com instead of john@company.com and the server of company.com is configured to be case sensitive, then john will never see my email.
- Too 9y agoIt is allowed to matter per the rfc. However I believe 99% of all mail servers in the world are configured to make it non case sensitive.
- sandov 9y ago>It is allowed to matter And we don't know when it will matter and when it won't matter, therefore we have to assume that it does matter unless we are sure it doesn't for our specific case.
- ksk 9y agoI see, so not relevant in the real world. Thanks!
- dang 9y agoPlease don't be rude on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ksk 9y agoI wasn't trying to be. I was mildly annoyed that this person was being needlessly pendantic about an irrelevant point that doesn't matter in any way whatsoever in the real world. They failed to give an example that matters.