On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:13:03 +0000, Neil Hodgson wrote: > Martin Marcher: > >> are you saying that when i have 2 gmail addresses >> >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >> they are actually treated the same? That is plain wrong and would break >> a lot of mail addresses as I have 2 that follow just this pattern and >> they are delivered correctly! > > This is a feature of some mail services such as Gmail, not of email > addresses generically. One use is to provide a set of addresses given > one base address. '+' works as well as '.' so when I sign up to service > monty I give them the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then when I > receive spam at nyamatongwe+monty, I know who to blame and what to > block.
Technically, everything in the local part of the address (the bit before the @ sign) is supposed to be interpreted *only* by the host given in the domain (the bit after the @ sign). So if Gmail wants to interpret "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" the same, they can. Or for that matter, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Although that would be silly. Postfix, I think, interpets "foo+bar" the same as "foo". -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
