Closed Bug 544788 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

email vs address book comparison is case sensitive

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Address Book
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129393

People

(Reporter: g.hueller, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1

have contact named John.Doe@example.com in my address book.
Receive an email from john.doe@example.com
the address is NOT matched against the address book, when I edit the contact I can only create a new card.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
see details


Expected Results:  
email addresses should be handled in a case INsensitive way.

wikipedia authors have the following to say about case sensitivity of email addresses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address)
"The local-part is case sensitive, so "jsmith@example.com" and "JSmith@example.com" may be delivered to different people. This practice is discouraged by RFC 5321."
From the same RFC you indirectly cited:

"The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive.  Therefore, SMTP implementations MUST take care to preserve the case of mailbox local-parts."

So doing this would violate that RFC.
See also: Bug 129393
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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