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by gowld 2361 days ago
"mail server" is ambiguous. SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is about transferring mail between domains, which must preserve the local part.

An MDA Mail Delivery Agent or LDA Local Delivery Agent inside a domain can choose whether to be case sensitive, but is discouraged from doing so.

The same issue exists for dots '.' in local part.