On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:11:48PM -0500, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> > Nope, in fact RFC 822 requires that case in the local-part of addresses
> > be preserved, with the exception that the postmaster address must be
> > deliverable regardless of case.  Most mailers by default do not distinguish
> > case as being important, but the RFC does allow them to if they wish.
> 
> I see; I stand corrected.  :-)
> 
> Since my whitelist was *@passport.com SpamAssassin should have whitelisted 
> *@PASSPORT.COM as well.  I'm not worried about it, just thought it was funky 
> and decided to bounce it off the list.  :-)
> 
Maybe I misunderstood the conversation when I replied  =)  RFC 822 only
specifies that the local-part of the address have it's case maintained,
the domain-name part is not included, and I'm pretty sure the DNS related
RFCs specify that it's case insensitive.

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