Re: using `equal' on email addresses

[Jost.Krieger@ruhr-uni-bochum.de]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:48:42PM +0100, NAGY Andras wrote:
 
> While email addresses are case insensitive, `equal' is being used at
> some (several?) places in Gnus to compare them, which should be
> fixed.  For instance, article-hide-boring-headers in gnus-art.el does
> this.

Please don't do this *exactly like this*.

The rules are:
The domain part is case insensitive.
In the local part, the address "Postmaster" must be valid
case-insensitively.
Othe local parts *can* be case-sensitive.

On the other hand, I know of no system that acts like this
intentionally, but under *nix you can easily have two users with
only case-differences to their loginid.

Jost
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