[MlMt] Case sensitivity in address pattern matching

[Randall Gellens]

It might not be the case.  Checking other possibilities.

--Randall

On 7 May 2018, at 15:34, Randall Gellens wrote:

> --Randall
>
> On 6 May 2018, at 13:21, Billy Youdelman wrote:
>
>> On 6 May 2018, at 12:30 MST, Randall Gellens wrote:
>>
>>> I have address patterns set for my accounts, and discovered that 
>>> when a sender has an address for me in all upper case, MM does not 
>>> recognize it as matching the address pattern.
>>
>> Call me crazy, I don't care, but ...
>
> What I care about is having my rules work.  What I don't care about is 
> if some sender converts my email address to upper case.
>
>>
>> If this is actually a problem that needs a solution, I would like to 
>> strongly suggest that forcing entire email addresses to lower-case is 
>> not it.
>
> The problem:
>
> (1) Some services convert email addresses to all upper case.  They 
> shouldn't, of course, because technically the semantics of the 
> local-part is entirely up to the receiving domain, which could enforce 
> case sensitivity if it chooses.  But the fact remains that I receive 
> some email where the address that reached me was converted to all 
> uppercase.
>
> (2) MM rules seem to be case-sensitive.
>
> From my point of view, I want rules to work regardless of case.
>
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