[Mailman-Developers] Query regarding ambiguous behavior of REST API due to case-sensitivity of email addresses

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 03, 2015, at 02:15 PM, Ankush Sharma wrote:

>> 2. Later on, in the same function the following code checks if the email
>> is matched:
>>
>> *for address in user.addresses:*
>> *            if address.email == email:*
>> *                   break*
>>
>> Here *email* is in *preserved case* while *address.email *returns a lower
>> case version of email and an *unmatch* occurs. ( sam at gmail.com and
>> SAM at gmail.com do not matches ofcourse )

I think you've done a great job of finding the root cause of the bug.  I'll
comment further on the merge proposal, but I think your fix is essentially
correct.

Thanks!

Cheers,
-Barry