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[Robert Lopez]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Antony Stone
<Antony.Stone at mailscanner.open.source.it> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 May 2013 at 10:20:51, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>
>> 1) nope, email addresses are not case sensitive.
>
> Not entirely true...
>
> >From http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.1.2
>
>> Local-part     = Dot-string / Quoted-string
>>                  ; MAY be case-sensitive
>
> Which means the part before the @ sign can be case-sensitive, and it's only
> the authoritative mail server for the domain which can decide whether there's
> a difference between j.smith and J.Smith.
>
> Not often important, I know, but can catch you out when you're not expecting
> it :)
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Antony.
>
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Robert Lopez
Unix Systems Administrator
Central New Mexico Community College (CNM)
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