Skip to content

GitLab

  • Menu
Projects Groups Snippets
    • Loading...
  • Help
    • Help
    • Support
    • Community forum
    • Submit feedback
    • Contribute to GitLab
  • Sign in
  • D djangoldp-account
  • Project information
    • Project information
    • Activity
    • Labels
    • Members
  • Repository
    • Repository
    • Files
    • Commits
    • Branches
    • Tags
    • Contributors
    • Graph
    • Compare
  • Issues 20
    • Issues 20
    • List
    • Boards
    • Service Desk
    • Milestones
  • Merge requests 1
    • Merge requests 1
  • CI/CD
    • CI/CD
    • Pipelines
    • Jobs
    • Schedules
  • Deployments
    • Deployments
    • Environments
    • Releases
  • Monitor
    • Monitor
    • Incidents
  • Packages & Registries
    • Packages & Registries
    • Container Registry
  • Analytics
    • Analytics
    • Value stream
    • CI/CD
    • Repository
  • Wiki
    • Wiki
  • Snippets
    • Snippets
  • Activity
  • Graph
  • Create a new issue
  • Jobs
  • Commits
  • Issue Boards
Collapse sidebar
  • djangoldp-packages
  • djangoldp-account
  • Issues
  • #74

Closed
Open
Created Mar 22, 2021 by Calum Mackervoy@calummackervoyMaintainer

Unique is case sensitive but email domain isn't

Email domains are not case sensitive but the unique constraint in Django is, so EmailField(unique=True) allows for duplicate emails to be registered in the database

"Email domains are not case sensitive"

https://django-improved-user.readthedocs.io/en/latest/email_warning.html

RFC 5321 states that the mailbox in mailbox@hostname of an email format is case-sensitive. ANDREW@example.com and andrew@example.com are therefore different email addresses (the domain is case-insensitive).

Edited Mar 22, 2021 by Calum Mackervoy
Assignee
Assign to
Time tracking