Bug#684356: carnivore: has multiple id's for same e-mail address

[Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 05:35:45PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 05:50:45AM +0000, Bart Martens wrote:
> >   |  email2id:Loeberbauer@ssw.jku.at = 1887
> >   |  email2id:loeberbauer@ssw.jku.at = 2361
> > Carnivore should merge these id's because the e-mail addresses are (comparing
> > them case insensitive) identical.
> 
> | The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive.
> (2.4 RFC 5321)

It seems that Debian doesn't always do that.  For example, an e-mail sent to
BartM@debian.org is delivered to the same mailbox as an e-mail sent to
bartm@debian.org .  Also, the script bts-wnpp_rm already converts all e-mail
addresses to lowercase.

I think that it is better to accept the reality that most people consider
e-mail addresses as case insensitive.  Looking at the examples in carnivore I
think that it is better to do the same in carnivore.

Regards,

Bart Martens