From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:58:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses
Message-ID: <49D542FA.3070304@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v63hmekyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>>> What part of the email address is this going to lowercase? Only the domain
>>> name is case agnostic.
> 
> That is my understanding of RFC, too.  Let's see where this mail goes to
> find out how much more lenient the real world is ;-).
> 
> 

Many email providers/servers are lenient when it comes to case in the 
local part of an email address (after all, they control the 
interpretation) but not every provider/server is and the RFC is VERY 
clear on this issue.