The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user

Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by sandov on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:29PM (#16784044)

If I send an email to [email protected] instead of [email protected] and the server of company.com is configured to be case sensitive, then john will never see my email.

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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by Too on Sunday April 08, 2018 @02:11AM (#16784868)

It is allowed to matter per the rfc. However I believe 99% of all mail servers in the world are configured to make it non case sensitive.

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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by sandov on Sunday April 08, 2018 @06:51PM (#16788949)

>It is allowed to matter

And we don't know when it will matter and when it won't matter, therefore we have to assume that it does matter unless we are sure it doesn't for our specific case.

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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by ksk on Sunday April 08, 2018 @02:44AM (#16784958)

I see, so not relevant in the real world. Thanks!

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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by dang on Sunday April 08, 2018 @06:49PM (#16788935)

Please don't be rude on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by ksk on Sunday April 08, 2018 @08:21PM (#16789341)

I wasn't trying to be. I was mildly annoyed that this person was being needlessly pendantic about an irrelevant point that doesn't matter in any way whatsoever in the real world. They failed to give an example that matters.

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