Re: case sensitive user name (FOO@BAR.COM v. foo@BAR.COM)

Frank Slootweg <this@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Sam wrote:
[...]
Linux and Unix account names are case sensitive, and have been this way for
a long time.

Some mail servers may silently translate all local mail addresses to
lowercase, but some may not.
[...]

Right, but this (slightly) predates e-mail. I'm just curious if
there's actually a *nix admin who has user foo and FOO, and perhaps
Foo, and, how that's dealt with. Oh well :)

But we aren't talking about (Unix or other) "user"s (Mark's term
userid) in the sense you are referring to ("*nix admin"), are we? I.e.
we are not talking about *login* (i.e. passwd(4)) names, but about the
username part of an *email address*, quite a different animal. I.e. we
are talking about hawat.thufir, not about hawatt (or whatever).

So the question is whether a *mail* admin would have a mailbox/
account/user/<whatever> HAWAT.THUFIR, hawat.thufir, Hawat.Thufir, etc..

FWIW, I have both some lower case as some mixed case email addresses,
albeit not on the same system/MSP.


And username part (left side of @ on e-mail address) may include also
other data than just username as I previously mentioned. Thse data may
(and often/sometimes is) case sensitive.

/ Kari Hurtta





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