I just tried this with my Postfix mail server, and it
doesn't work.  Is that a limitation of Postfix, or a
configuration problem on my system?


> Just want to mention that one of my pet peeves is web
> sites that think that email addresses with a "+" in the
> name aren't valid.  They are valid and rfc compliant.
> Technically you might want to allow them.  For example,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a valid e-mail address.  Just
> for those that don't know how the plus sign is treated,
> according to the SMTP RFC's, mail clients should accept
> e-mail addresses with a plus sign in it, but for the
> purposes of delivery, everything after the plus sign is
> ignored.  This allows for some cool filtering and spam
> prevention.  For example, all my e-mail communication with
> comcast is done with torriem+comcast.  If I start getting
> spam that is being sent to torriem+comcast, then I know
> who sold my address and then I can block all mail with the
> "+comast" suffix.

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