modify account: uppercase email address

[rosch]

I am trying to set a user email address to uppercase for better readability.
Example:

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zmprov ma user@domain.com mail USER@domain.com
ERROR: service.INVALID_REQUEST (invalid request: mail is immutable)

I have one account with an uppercase name, so it's possible. If I remember correctly I did not achieve this with the zmprov command.
I tried renaming with ra but that didn't work either.
Does somebody know how to get around the immutable bit?

[koichi.kato]

Email address is not case-sensitive. An email sent to USER@domain.com will be delivered to a mailbox of user@domain.com.
On Zimbra, an uppercase letter in an email address is changed to a lowercase letter in the process of CreateAccount or RenameAccount.

[liverpoolfcfan]

I am trying to set a user email address to uppercase for better readability.
Example:

What is the use case?

If you want emails from that account to get sent out with the elail address looking like MAILBOX@server.com you can just set the email address in the format you would like in

WebClient->Preferences->Accounts->Primary Account Settings->Settings for sent messages

Just overwrite the sending email address mailbox@server.com with the desired format MAILBOX@server.com and save it.

If the use case is different, please explain more.

[rosch]

I am trying to set a user email address to uppercase for better readability.
Example:

What is the use case?

If you want emails from that account to get sent out with the elail address looking like MAILBOX@server.com you can just set the email address in the format you would like in

WebClient->Preferences->Accounts->Primary Account Settings->Settings for sent messages

Just overwrite the sending email address mailbox@server.com with the desired format MAILBOX@server.com and save it.

If the use case is different, please explain more.

Use case is better readability since letters like i and l can be mixed up easily.

Webclient: thanks for the tip there is no way to edit the email address in Accounts / Primary Account Settings. The email address is greyed out.

[Klug]

Email address is not case-sensitive.

Actually it is.

An email sent to USER@domain.com will be delivered to a mailbox of user@domain.com.

This is a local choice/setup on the last server (the one doing the delivery).
The domain part is not case sensitive (RFC 1035). The local part can be.

The standard mailbox naming convention is defined to be "local-part@domain"; contemporary usage permits a much broader set of applications than simple "user names". Consequently, and due to a long history of problems when intermediate hosts have attempted to optimize transport by modifying them, the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned semantics only by the host specified in the domain part of the address.

On Zimbra, an uppercase letter in an email address is changed to a lowercase letter in the process of CreateAccount or RenameAccount.

So every adress is lower cased inside Zimbra.

You can force the addresses to be lower cased in ZImbra but you cannot say email addresses are not case-sensitive.