From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 14 23: 2:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7346637B40C for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f8F62l609556; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:02:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Matthew Graybosch" , "Stephen Hilton" Cc: Subject: RE: Eep! Please don't flame me! Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:02:47 -0700 Message-ID: <001101c13dac$0af23800$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010914200648.0421bc0c.matthew@starbreaker.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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