> Why is it telling me I created a new account instead of logging me into my existing account?
> Email addresses on Medium are case-sensitive.
Wow. Is there ever any possible benefit to this? (Serious question)
> Email addresses on Medium are case-sensitive.
Wow. Is there ever any possible benefit to this? (Serious question)
In practice, most email providers don't actually honor that, and so in practice it's a bad move. It is technically correct though.
I guess I never thought to look that up. Likely due to the common way being so pervasive.
> The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive. [0]
We lower-case all e-mails in our systems. I'll let you know when we hit a system that actually treats it case-sensitive.
"the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned semantics only by the host specified in the domain part of the address."