MAIL-FROM case sensitive?

Dale,

In general, email is *not* case-sensitive. All of the major mail
programs (sendmail, PP, etc) do not pay any attention to case.
I would have to check, but I think this is also part of the rfc-822
spec.

- C


Dale S. Johnson writes:
> Anyone,
> 
>   Is email address authentication using the MAIL-FROM lines really supposed
> to be case-sensitive?  It seems to be so on our implementation (and is 
> causing a *lot* of questions and bounces).  
> 
>   If it is intended this way, is there some gotcha we're likely to discover
> if we make it case-insensitive?
> 
> --Dale
> 


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