Re: New draft, new idea

[Grant Baillie <gbaillie@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05 Feb 2004, at 4:28 PM, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:

> At 6:04 PM -0500 2/5/04, Martin Duerst wrote:
> > > Display names are *not* mailbox names.
> >
> > Yes. But from an end-user's perspective, where exactly is the 
> > difference?
>
> The difference exactly is that the display name can be changed or 
> omitted when entering an email address and the mail still gets to the 
> correct destination. Display names are optional and have nothing to do 
> with mail transmission.
>
> > (using upper-case for non-ascii)
> > Currently, I can't tell a user (e.g. in Mexico) to send a mail to
> > JOSE@xxxxxxxxxxxx With the new proposal, I will still not be able to
> > tell somebody to send a mail to JOSE@xxxxxxxxxxxx In both cases, I
> > need to give jose@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Huh? In what program? Mailbox names are case-sensitive. Some 
> terminating SMTP servers will change case, but that's not part of the 
> protocol.

I think that by "(using upper-case for non-ascii)" Martin meant he was 
using uppercase to represent arbitrary non-ascii characters in the 
email addresses in his example.

--Grant

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Grant Baillie
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Apple Computer, Inc.
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