Re: TMDA w/ISP

[S.Toms]

  That's kinda the way I thought it would be. I just kept looking at it 
and pondering all the questions that would arise, but just couldn't see 
a way that someone replying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
would actually magically find it's way to my inbox without intervention 
by the administrator(s) of the provider I get my account through.
  The only way I could see it working is if I had a static IP with my 
own domain which can receive outside mail and manage it with TMDA, or I 
had someone hosting my domain which then forwarded any mail for that 
domain to my mailserver to then manage with TMDA.
  Am I thinking this through correctly or is this starting to sound 
confusing?  :)

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     S.Toms - smotrs at mindspring.com - www.mindspring.com/~smotrs
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David wrote:
--- "S.Toms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

For instance, if I use dated, sender or keyword addresses
against my account on mindspring, how will 
mindspring know that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is me when 
mindspring only knows me as smotrs?



It probably wont.

The ability to recognize extensions of your base e-mail address as
aliases of your own address is a function not only of TMDA, but also of
the mail server.
The mail server on their end would need to be configured so that when
it sees the extension, that it will still send the mail to your
account.
Thus, if I asked to have an account created called david, and another
user had an account called david-test, then how would the mail server
distiguish between the two when it saw extensions of the base address?
I'm not sure about how mail servers other than qmail would handle it,
but I know that when you create a new user on a system managed by
qmail, that in addition to creating the user account, it's also
necessary to configure qmail for each new user so that the extensions
are recognized and delivered to the same user.
I hope I'm not sounding as confused as I think I am. And if I'm wrong,
then someone please correct me. But this is my understanding from what
I've been using.
David

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