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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] A diversion into SMTP mail protocol
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:28:13 -0500
References: <17907369.1326478537452.JavaMail.root@elwamui-darkeyed.atl.sa.earthlink.net><201201140111.q0E1BN8E012101@mail.rootsweb.com><4F11932C.1080702@Damon-Family.org> <4F1429FA.1010204@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <4F1429FA.1010204@verizon.net>
At 08:45 AM 1/16/2012, bob gillis wrote:
>The only US isp that used case sensitive email addresses AIR was AOL
>and even AOL changed a couple of years ago to all lower case and to
>case insensitive.
That doesn't negate the fact that the internet RFC for email
addresses specifies that only the destination host gets to determine
if case is insignificant. Intermediate (aka: relay) servers are
required to treat difference in case in the prefix (before the @) as
unique addresses.
The relay I'm using at present is doing such AND is creating
separate messages during the relay process rather than handshaking
both "Tmg@..." and "tmg@..." into one single message to rootsweb
(after all, that's how it receives it from my client -- one message
with multiple addressees), and letting rootsweb potentially split
them into separate addresses (in reality, seeing they are the same,
and ignoring the extra).
Compound this with Eudora 7.x being "fixed" to not generate
multiple "message-id" headers when doing a resend, by inadvertantly
not generating /any/ "message-id" headers. If Eudora 7.x were
providing a message-id, rootsweb would be able to see that the two
messages were the same, based upon the message-id (which is supposed
to be unique); instead, it adds an id to each copy it received.
Eudora 6.x, on my desktop (which should be back in service by the end
of the month -- I sign an apartment lease on Wednesday and can start
moving in) has the bug of multiple message-ids on resend, but does
have a message id on sends, so the situation should disappear again
(after all, I've not been called on it until the last month -- which
has been the only usage of the new laptop).
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