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>email / gmail is not case sensitive Jsmith@gmail.com is the same as jsmith@gmail.com gmail is not case sensitive. email systems are allowed to be case sensiti
by fsckboy 1y ago
>email / gmail is not case sensitive Jsmith@gmail.com is the same as jsmith@gmail.com
gmail is not case sensitive. email systems are allowed to be case sensitive, most choose not to be. This used to be an issue to deal with when pre-internet legacy email addresses (like Lotus Notes corporate email, or Outlook/Exchange systems) were put onto the internet.
- IAmBroom 1y agoEmail systems are allowed to be within their own domains. If an email is sent from Yahoo.com to Gmail.com, case is irrelevant. So, assuming case matters is foolish.
- Symbiote 1y agoRDC 5321 > The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive.
- chrisandchris 1y ago> So, assuming case matters is foolish Oh so much fun with my yearly quiz testing students about case-sensitivity! They're always wrong because thinks are so horribly broken. It is absolutely foolish, assuming case _may_ not matter in the Internet. Case does not matter, true, except it does. One of my favourite parts: URL paths are case-sensitive, except most servers do not care (because of a case-insensitive filesystem), and they're not always case-sensitive, e.g. for the mailto-scheme the path is case-insentive, because the path is actually an e-mail adress (which is itself case-insensitive).