On Friday, February 28, 2014 12:55:31 PM UTC+10:30, waylan wrote:
>
> On Thursday, February 27, 2014 6:50:38 PM UTC-5, Camilo Torres wrote:
>>
>> normalize_email will indeed allow both [email protected] and 
>> [email protected] to be different entities. From the user perspective, 
>> this is an error. Most probably the user enters some day their email in all 
>> upper case because he pressed the CapsLock key, or copy pasted a transcript 
>> of his email, etc., the user could not be able to figure out the difference 
>> and simply could not log in.
>>
>
>
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>  
> The point is that the user will inadvertently type 
> [email protected]<javascript:> on 
> their mobile device after registering with [email protected] <javascript:> on 
> their desktop/laptop. And they won't understand why they can't log in if it 
> is case sensitive. Given that both addresses will deliver email to the same 
> email account, it seems to me that both should be valid for the same 
> account as an email based username on a sign-in form.
>

But there's the rub. Whilst for _most_ email servers, this will indeed send 
mail to the same account, there's nowhere that says this _must_ happen.

Relevant: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9807909/are-email-addresses-case-sensitive

Matt. 

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