[Wikitech-l] SUL

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 12:02:54AM +0200, Platonides wrote:
> I also hit a bug on myself when not all accounts matched the email. I 
> capitalised first-letter on some of them and not on anothers. Luckily, i 
> only needed to identify to a second wiki to merge the full second block.
> 
> This is correct rfc behaviour, the user name part of the email address 
> must be left unchanged, only the system storing it can perform 
> case-transformations on it, as opposed to the host, which should be 
> lower case, but as most email providers are cese-insensitive (is anyone 
> case-sensitive?)

Per the spec: LHSs of mailbox names have case sensitivity that is
implementation-dependent and must be treated as case-sensitive.

RHSs of mailbox names are -- these days -- domain names, and domain
names are case insensitive by their spec.

RFC 2822 and 1136, I think.

Cheers,
-- jra
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