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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Suggestions
Message-ID: <1094@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 18 May 89 06:19:02 GMT
References: <121@unifax.UUCP>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <121@unifax.UUCP> sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:

>	Aliases should not be case sensitive.
>Mail addresses are not case sensitive. Why are aliases? Stuart.Lynne should
>be the same as stuart.lynne when entered as an alias.

The LOCAL part of a mail address (the `user' part) IS case sensitive !!!
See RFC822. Only the domain part is case insensitive (e.g.
monet.Berkeley.Edu and MoNeT.berkeley.EDU are equivalent).

One exception: the local address `postmaster' is case insensitive
(e.g. equivalent to PoStMaStEr or POSTmasTER). Also: see RFC822.

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