Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-21 Thread Martin Marcher
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Postfix, I think, interpets "foo+bar" the same as "foo". yup it does, but "foo" has to be a valid localpart so "foo+bar" -> foo foo+baz -> foo f+oobar -> f - which is a different user (aliases set aside) famous call on plus addressing, and you it's just a default you can

[OT] Valid Mail addresses modifications (WAS: Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick)

2008-01-21 Thread Martin Marcher
Martin Vilcans wrote: > Try the SMTP spec. IIRC there's a passage there that says that the > server should try to make sense of addresses that don't map directly > to a user name. Specifically, it says that firstname.lastname should > be mapped to the user with those first and last names. Short s

Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Martin Vilcans
On Jan 20, 2008 8:58 PM, Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

RE: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Postfix, I think, interpets "foo+bar" the same as "foo". Gmail does the same. It's quite useful - apart from using it to determine which site I signed up to has sent me mail, I also use it so I can have multiple Guild Wars accounts using the same email account e.g. [EMAI

Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:13:03 +, 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 hav

Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Neil Hodgson
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

Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:38:06 -0200, Joshua Gilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > My task is this: Loop through an email and create as many combinations of > periods as possible. So all the combinations for blah would be: > > b.lah > bl.ah > bla.h > b.l.ah > b.la.h > bl.a.h I'd use a recursive

Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Martin Marcher
On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:38 Joshua Gilman wrote: > So I have a very interesting task ahead of me and it is to loop through an > email using the 'gmail dot trick'. Essentially this trick puts periods > throughout your email to make it look different. Even though it has > periods gmail will repl

Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Joshua Gilman
So I have a very interesting task ahead of me and it is to loop through an email using the 'gmail dot trick'. Essentially this trick puts periods throughout your email to make it look different. Even though it has periods gmail will replace them all and send it to that email. So [EMAIL PROTECTED]