On 11/29/20 3:48 PM, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
> Traditionally SMTP systems forced everything to be lower case ... but
> then people like Microsoft started making MTA's that where case
> sensitive for the reciever part of the email address (at the time this
> was not RFC complianat behaviour).

IIRC the local part of e-mail address was always defined as case-sensitive.

BTW: In old Internet mail systems the local part was often the Unix user
name. And according to POSIX standard this is case-sensitive (which most
people also forget).

Ciao, Michael.

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