Email Addresses

[secsee1]

a friend has just sent me his new email address by text, it seems to contain 2 uppercase letters ie: [e-mail] can this be correct as I thought all email addresses were lowercase.

[Jomlett]

Hardly any email service or ISP enforces case sensitive email addresses. I tested my email address with the first 3 letters in upper case and had no problem receiving.

[secsee1]

Thanks jomett, I have to say I have never heard of email addresses with uppercase in them but as they say "you learn something every day" so uppercase letters it is then.

[Alex_Higham]

Hi folk.....I Did Not know that E/mail addresses are Not case sensitive.

Interesting, I have just tested mine and put the first 2 letters of my address in upper case along with a further [e-mail]. No probs, it works.

[Alex_Higham]

^^^ Obviously without the full stop after the com

[beso]

The email standard is not case sensitive.

However the operating systems that the early mail severs ran on before the standard were case sensitive. A single case was slightly simpler to implement and lowercase briefly became a defacto standard.

That impression persisted.

Moreover, would you want your mail address exactly the same as someone else's except for one capital letter?

[sunny-dave]

Also ... Gmail ignores all 'dots' in gmail addresses - so you can give out your address as [e-mail] but mail will be delivered correctly even if addressed to [e-mail] or [e-mail] or [e-mail] etc etc

[boxtops]

we used to have case sensitive email addresses at work, but no longer - it's all lower case these days.