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The RFC states that email addresses are case sensitive. The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive. Section 2.4 RFC 2821, https://www.ietf.
by tim-- 5y ago
The RFC states that email addresses are case sensitive.
The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive.
Section 2.4 RFC 2821, https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
- deadbunny 5y agoMy guess would be that the local part of an email address would usually map to a directory on case sensitive filesystems...
- im3w1l 5y agoAh interesting. I guess the case insensitivity (for incoming email) is a decision of the popular services then, like gmails decision to consider johndoe equivalent to john.doe.