Re: [apps-discuss] Mail client configuration via something, maybe WebFinger

Eric Burger <eburger@standardstrack.com> Wed, 10 February 2016 17:42 UTC

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I am pleasantly surprised - you have an ISP that respects the RFC that states the user part *is* case sensitive. Most ignore that. Oh well.

> On Feb 10, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Doug Royer <douglasroyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> (2) Some ISP's want your email address in all lower case when
> authenticating, others want it as you entered it. When I setup with my
> isp, it asked what email address I wanted: I entered "DougRoyer", so
> that is how I entered my account name. I have to use DougRoyer (and not
> dougroyer@isp, DougRoyer@isp, or dougroyer) as the authentication name.
> It took me an hour or so to figure that out.