also sprach hostmaster:
> > The only downside I found of that is that Netscape doesn't like thoses
> > kinda "user names" it tries to truncate anything after the @ and just use
> > what's before the @... most e-mail clients will like that kinda username.
> >
> > BTW ayone have any other ideas beside using and "@" sign in the user's
> > name like umm "#" (username: jason#domain.com) so things like netscape
> > will work? This hasn't been and issue with my customers yet but I think
> > it may soon (I suggest them use Outlook or a seperate e-mail or that I
> > foward
> > e-mail to their
> > current account)
>
> vpopmail seems to use % when I looked at it the other day, however I prefer
> to use a character that doesn't mean anything to the shell, as it can
> simplify things at times. Thus I settled on a +, which AFAIK hasn't caused
> a problem in ANY program I have heard of.....
vpopmail uses, by default, the characters %@/. However, this is configurable
at compile-time; set it to ``-'' to really confuse things. :)
/pg
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