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. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
