Re: New draft, new idea

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
>> [email protected]. With the new proposal, I will still not be able to
>> tell somebody to send a mail to [email protected]. In both cases, I
>> need to give [email protected].
>
> 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
Mac OS X Mail
Apple Computer, Inc.
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