On 2020/02/06 17:02, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: > On 6 Feb 2020, at 16:04, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: > > > Dnia 6.02.2020 o godz. 12:43:52 Philip Paeps via mailop pisze: > > > > > > Why are there still setups in 2020 that don't support this? > > > > Especially that all main MTAs have been supporting this "since > > always"... > > Sendmail has supported this since quite old releases, Postfix probably > > was > > supporting it from the beginning... Same for Exim. As far as I know, in > > sendmail and Postfix it is even turned on by default (don't know for > > Exim, > > as I used it very little). > > The support in some MTAs and MDAs for treating "+" and/or other characters > as delimiters between a primary local-part and a 'tag' is an entirely local > matter and should never be presumed by any sender. The '+' is in no way > special to SMTP.
Exactly. So websites and others should not block their use in addresses - but many do. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
