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> You shouldn't be comparing the mailbox part of email addresses at all other than as literal bytestrings

It's hard to know what to do in practice, but this seems to be wrong according to https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6532#section-3.1: "normalization form NFC SHOULD be used".



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