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From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: POP Mail - Users with Capitols???
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:11:00 GMT
Organization: Senarius Inc.
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On stardate Sat, 21 Sep 1996 00:43:30 GMT, rfresh@mail.idt.net (Ralph
Freshour) sent holographic email and wrote:

>RFC 821 (for SMTP) says case does matter with user names - Smith is
>*not* the same as smith.  I would conclude the same is true for the
>pop3 spec although I don't have it handy to look up at the moment.


 Nope. A user with a capitol letter in their username will not be able
to recieve mail..


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|Lance Cavener                Systems Administrator     |
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