# Plugin handles emails in a case-sensitive way

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-handles-emails-in-a-case-sensitive-way/90597
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** patreon
**Created:** [May 30, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-handles-emails-in-a-case-sensitive-way/90597 "2018-05-30T18:17:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![blattersturm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blattersturm/32/76134_2.png) [@blattersturm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blattersturm)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-handles-emails-in-a-case-sensitive-way/90597/1 "2018-05-30T18:17:55Z")

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Could it be the case that the Discourse integration plugin handles emails in a case-sensitive way?

In our case, user X has email address `something@example.com` on Discourse and pledged with email address `Something@example.com` on Patreon, and they don’t seem to get assigned their pledges. 😕

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### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-handles-emails-in-a-case-sensitive-way/90597/2 "2018-05-30T19:46:30Z")

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Thanks for your report. I will check it soon.

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### Author: ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-handles-emails-in-a-case-sensitive-way/90597/3 "2018-05-30T21:22:49Z")

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> [@Discourse Patreon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-patreon/44366/164):
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> Could it be the case that the Discourse integration plugin handles emails in a case-sensitive way?

… that isn’t necessarily wrong … anything to the left of the `@` is allowed to be case sensitive at the discretion of the email provider.

(of course, in practice, a lot of systems assume case insensitivity and get this wrong)

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### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-handles-emails-in-a-case-sensitive-way/90597/4 "2018-05-31T17:29:56Z")

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It’s fixed as per commit

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-patreon/commit/17c810416b1aa037b816e9c78b836c1b6db34fb9](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-patreon/commit/17c810416b1aa037b816e9c78b836c1b6db34fb9)

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-handles-emails-in-a-case-sensitive-way/90597/5 "2018-06-24T13:00:13Z")

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