Search Again: Re: Case question From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, October 11, 2001 Time: 10:20:04 am At 11:48 AM -0500 10/11/01, Len Conrad wrote: >well, LenConrad, lenconrad, LENCONRAD, etc, etc as localparts >always get delivered to the same mailbox on my mail server Imail, >after being routed through a postfix gateway. So that's two major >MTA's that are case independent in the localpart. > >I stand by my position that any mail server that treats localpart@ >as a different address from LocalPart@ is effectively broken in >today's Internet. Mmm... I don't know. A case could be made otherwise. For example, in the web service business, some web server platforms treat pathnames as case sensitive (Apache), while others do not (WebSTAR). The fact that some web servers are case insensitive doesn't mean that web browsers can treat URL's as case insensitive. At 11:54 AM -0500 10/11/01, Len Conrad wrote: >>Read it again. >> >>"The only syntactic units which requires [sic] preservation of case >>information are... local-part, except "Postmaster"". > >"preservation" of case information in localpart@ is always done by >postfix and Imail, but not for mailbox delivery. OK, there you go. Your POP3/IMAP server is case insensitive, as apparently is PostFix from the standpoint of applying filter rules (from your description), but case is preserved until the last possible moment (adding mail to a mailbox). I agree that, from a usability standpoint, a case-sensitive mail server would lead to no end of confusion, but nevertheless, the potential appears to be there. The fact that I dislike case sensitivity in file systems and web servers doesn't mean that everyone feels that way - somebody surely finds the Linux/Unix standard of a case-sensitive file system useful. [Now don't I sound like a lawyer, splitting hairs and drawing parallels!] ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: Case question by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 24, 2001 at 2:06:35 pm Re: Case question by Len Conrad on Sep 24, 2001 at 2:23:06 pm Re: Case question by Mark Hartman on Sep 24, 2001 at 2:34:55 pm Re: Case question by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Sep 24, 2001 at 2:58:08 pm Re: Case question by Warren Michelsen on Oct 8, 2001 at 7:33:27 am Re: Case question by Len Conrad on Oct 8, 2001 at 11:44:32 am Re: Case question by Len Conrad on Oct 11, 2001 at 9:01:18 am Re: Case question by Warren Michelsen on Oct 11, 2001 at 9:11:17 am Re: Case question by Men & Mice Support on Oct 11, 2001 at 9:25:39 am Re: Case question by Len Conrad on Oct 11, 2001 at 9:49:35 am Re: Case question by Len Conrad on Oct 11, 2001 at 9:55:03 am Re: Case question by Men & Mice Support on Oct 11, 2001 at 10:20:04 am Re: Case question by Warren Michelsen on Oct 12, 2001 at 9:11:35 am Re: Case question by Warren Michelsen on Oct 12, 2001 at 9:14:07 am Re: Case question by Mark Hartman on Oct 12, 2001 at 9:26:46 am