On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:54:16AM +0100, ropers wrote:
> On 2 March 2016 at 23:59, Jason Barbier <jab...@serversave.us> wrote:
>
> > [You're] probably going to have to suck it up at some point and use +
> > [delimiters] like most people have moved to doing since according to the
> > RFC - is a valid email address char.
> >
>
> So is +.
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3696#section-3
> - is not any more legal than +, just maybe more common, and you're still
> more likely to encounter non-RFC compliant implementations that don't deal
> with plus correctly, especially in web form email "verification" scripts --
> but many of those suck monkey balls anyway.
>
Won't question your need however this + vs - thing has come up often and
I'd like to stress out that even though both - and + are valid, use of -
introduces ambiguity given that - is allowed in usernames:
$ doas useradd -m foo
$ doas useradd -m foo-bar
Who should get mail for foo-bar@ ?
This just doesn't happen with + because:
$ doas useradd -m bar
$ doas useradd -m bar+baz
useradd: `bar+baz' is not a valid login name
$
Now as far as your issue is concerned, what you could do if you can't go
without - is to take an account anywhere that supports + then just setup
a simple mail forwarder at a vps host to rewrite - to +, this way you'll
be able to transition without being limited in hosting choices.
just my opinion ;)
--
Gilles Chehade
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