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Re: [dane] email canonicalization for SMIMEA owner names

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 12 December 2014 04:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dane] email canonicalization for SMIMEA owner names
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>> If I say I'm foo@bar.example, and you type Foo@bar.example into your
>> MUA to send me e-mail, you might not reach me.
>>
>> That seems fair.
>
>Actually, that is really stupid, ...

This time I completely agree with Paul.

>And someone should write an RFC updating SMTP to not allow
>case-sensitivity for different mailboxes so we can stop coming back to
>this whenever anyone wants to do anything with email addresses.

It's 30 years too late for that.  The situation we're in here is
fairly peculiar, in that clients other than the recipient MTA are
trying to interpret the mailbox name.  Previous mail protocol hacks
have carefully avoided that.

R's,
John

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