Re: Protection of hyphen

At 12:27 03/04/22 +0100, Roy Badami wrote:


>  > Note that "owner-listname" is a prime example of why we might *not*
>  > want to protect the hyphen. The hyphen in that name is not for making
>  > subaddresses: it is just there for preventing the two names from
>  > smooshing together.
>
>But some software (eg sendmail) has special knowledge of the
>owner-listname construct.
>
>I wonder how much mailing list management software has things like
>owner-listname or listname-request hardwired?  (Note: I'm not saying
>that this is a big problem in practice; I'm just posing the question.)
>
>Also hyphen is the default delimiter for subaddressing in qmail
>(though this is easily changed, so may not matter so much).

Can it be changed on a per-installation basis, or on a per-user
basis, or on a per-main-address basis? Can it be changed by the
user, or does it need system priviledges?

If we need a sysadmin to change it, and it applies to all users
and all existing and future addresses, then this is a serious problem.
If each user can change it, per address (many users will want to
have both a traditional ASCII address and an IMA), then that's
probably okay.


Regards,   Martin.