On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:01, W B Hacker wrote:
> Jeremy Harris wrote:
> > http://exim.org/exim-html-4.63/doc/html/spec_html/ch11.html#SECTexpvar
> >
> > Is $domain already lower-cased? The docs don't say one way or the other.
> > What about $original_domain and $parent_domain?
> > $sender_address?
> >
> > Note that $local_part is specified for this.
>
> IIRC, the internet specifications are that <domain>.<tld> *must* be
> lower-case.
No, the "internet specifications" (in general, and DNS in particular) say that
domain labels are *case-insensitive*.
For that reason some applications *might* require domain names to be all
lowercase on input (but that's stupid), or they may convert them to all
lowercase without penalty.
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