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Re: VMailer/postfix: Am I really the only one ?




On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, tuvia beker wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean?That Qmail won't accept addresses with "+" in them?
> > Would like to try this if you give me a specific example.
> Please do try it. What I mean is that usually (sendmail/smail/zmailer
> etc.) if you send mail to amos+friends@gezernet.co.il, you will get the
> message, and can then have a procmail rule do whatever you want with the
> message according to the part of the address following the + sign. This is
> a very common filter, and qmail fails to deliver such messages to the
> right user (at least it did last time I checked, which wasn't so long
> ago).

Dan Bernstein chose - instead of + at some point, I don't remember where
it is explained, but ira-friends, or my mailing list ira-tech are both
managed by me in my home directlry with ~ira/.qmail-friends and
~ira/.qmail-tech respectively. AFAIK there is a definition .h file you can
edit for Qmail at compile time to make it use + too. I personally don't
know what difference it makes other than - is indeed sometimes used in
usernames (never saw + in a username), but on the other hand, ira-tech is
more readable at a quick glance than ira+tech (at least with my current
font). I have no idea if there are deeper technical reasons...

-- 
Ira Abramov ;  whois:IA58  ;  www.scso.com ;  all around Linux enthusiast 
                              --  "Of course Unix is a user friendly OS, 
                              it is just very peaky about her friends..."