Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:02:47 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Matthew Graybosch" <matthew@starbreaker.net>, "Stephen Hilton" <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Eep! Please don't flame me! Message-ID: <001101c13dac$0af23800$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010914200648.0421bc0c.matthew@starbreaker.net>
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Hi Matthew, According to RFC1035, the hostname part of your e-mail address is required to be case INSENSITIVE. There is not a defined standard for the userID part. However, by convention the username is rendered case INSENSITIVE as well. (to make it case sensitive you have to set a flag in Sendmail and probably other mailers too.) If your ISP treats userID's as case-insensitive with regards to incoming e-mail, then they are following the standard if they upper-case your e-mail address on their webinterface. It's a little odd, I'll admit, because usually most people that do this do it the other way - by making the entire address lower-case - but it's within the standards and perfectly OK. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matthew >Graybosch >Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 5:07 PM >To: Stephen Hilton >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Eep! Please don't flame me! > > >*groans* I'm going to kick my ISP's ass. You see, I've been >posting from work using my ISP's web-based email. It seems that >they like to render my userid and address in all caps. I guess I >won't be posting from work at lunchtime anymore, 'cos its either >use the web mail -- or put up with Outlook, as I work in an MS >shop, and the BOFH won't let me install better tools. As it is, >he nearly kicked my ass for installing Opera so I wouldn't have >to put up with IE. > >****** >Matthew Graybosch >http://www.starbreaker.net >"Snafu uber alles." > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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