[MlMt] smart mailbox recipient filters are case sensitive: should they be?

Fabian Blechschmidt lists-freron-com at fabian-blechschmidt.de
Fri Jun 5 13:50:13 EDT 2020


Hey Eric,

unfortunately is the local-part (before the @) technically case 
sensitive.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/9808332/1480397

The sentence I like the best is:

> In short, you are safe to treat email addresses as case-insensitive.

It is up to Benny, but at least I agree and think this is a bug which 
should be fixed 😅

Best
Fabian

On 5 Jun 2020, at 19:45, Eric Sharakan wrote:

> Hi, I have several smart mailboxes with a condition of "To Contains 
> sharakan".  Someone just sent me an email with my last name 
> capitalized, and the condition wasn't satisfied.
>
> Since email addresses are case-insensitive, shouldn't the filters also 
> be?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Eric


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