On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:31:37AM +0000, Martin Radford wrote: > At Fri Nov 15 17:53:22 2002, Steve Thomas wrote: > > > > I wouldn't recommend doing this, though. E-mail addresses are not case > > sensitive, > > That's not correct.
Neither, strictly speaking, is your assertion. The correct answer is, as with many things in life, "it depends". > The local-part (the bit to the left of the '@' symbol) *is* > case-sensitive. It's only the domain (the bit after the '@') that's > not case-sensitive. > > From RFC2821 (section 2.4): You're referencing the SMTP RFC, which applies only to SMTP envelope addresses, not message headers. SA deals with the latter, for which RFC 2822 applies -- and carefully says /nothing/ about case sensitivity of the local part (ie. it's up to whatever programs that parse message headers on the local system). - Adrian ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
