MAIL-FROM case sensitive?

### On Thu, 11 May 1995 09:45:58 -0400 (EDT), Craig Labovitz
### <labovit at merit.edu> wrote to dsj at merit.edu (Dale S. Johnson) concerning
### "Re: MAIL-FROM case sensitive?":

CL> Dale S. Johnson writes:
CL> > Anyone,
CL> > 
CL> >   Is email address authentication using the MAIL-FROM lines really supposed
CL> > to be case-sensitive?  It seems to be so on our implementation (and is 
CL> > causing a *lot* of questions and bounces).  
CL> > 
CL> >   If it is intended this way, is there some gotcha we're likely to discover
CL> > if we make it case-insensitive?
CL>
CL> In general, email is *not* case-sensitive. All of the major mail
CL> programs (sendmail, PP, etc) do not pay any attention to case.
CL> I would have to check, but I think this is also part of the rfc-822
CL> spec.

Could it be that email authentication is case-sensitive because the auth
field can also be used for encrypted passwords?  Is there a way to possibly
turn off case-sensitivity for MAIL-FROM yet still retain it for encrypted
password checking?


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