Re: [Mailman-Developers] lowercase listnames?
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"DF" == Darrell Fuhriman <darrell@grumblesmurf.net> writes:
DF> Though god knows why anyone would *want* a case-sensitive DF> anything in an e-mail address. gun, foot and all that. DF> *shudder*
Some (many?) of us have no problem using case to distinguish things, and rely on it for modes of expression.
It has definitely come up in the past and caused people problems. Probably not a majority of users, but still.
Sure. "rm" causes problems for some users, too.
When you register an email address with Mailman, it case preserves the localpart for purposes of sending out the messages, but it always compares email addresses case insensitively. You can't subscribe two addresses which differ only by case,
...and that's appropriate, since the SMTP systems won't deal with that either...
but when it sends out a message, it will make sure to send it out with the exact address that was subscribed.
...and this ought to be as true for the list name as it is for the user addresses.
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"DM" == Dan Mick <Dan.Mick@West.Sun.COM> writes:
>> but when it sends out a message,
>> it will make sure to send it out with the exact address that
>> was subscribed.
DM> ...and this ought to be as true for the list name as it is for
DM> the user addresses.
It probably makes sense to case-preserve the list names, but I don't have the time to think about what this would take. So I'm +0 on the idea, perhaps for 2.1.
-Barry
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