MailScanner being a little TOO fussy about case?

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Mon Jan 30 20:12:26 GMT 2006


Hmmm...

	Just noticed this in an E-Mail message:

MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.rglegal.com"
claiming to bewww.RGLegal.com

	Ok...  Other than needing a space after the "be" to be clearer, it's
fussing that the case doesn't match in an FQDN?  That's a bit much.  It
shouldn't be case sensitive there, should it?  While there MIGHT be a
problem with the paths in some URL's being case sensitive, a domain name
is case insensitive.  In fact, I quite often mix case on my own domain
name - wittsend.com == WittsEnd.com == WittsEnd.Com - depending on
context.

	Mike
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