Re: plus addresses

A couple of notes:

1. I accidentally included the path to my EasyAlias.authlib file within 
the <code></code> tags. That, of course, is not part of the code of  the 
bash script.
2. Enabling plus addressing is very useful. Some mail  service providers 
allow use of plus addresses on the fly without the need to manually 
create them as an alias on their system and don't count them toward your 
limit of aliases if they have a limit. But the risk is that some systems 
do not support them. Best case scenario is that a form or page won't 
accept them if they're not supported. Worst case scenario is that the 
form allows them to be submitted, but then the back end systems do not 
support them. And then you'll just never get an email message from that 
system. Many will remove t he plus sign and treat it as a space. Others 
will only record the portion after the plus. If a form rejects entry of  
a plus sign, most will allow the dash sign. But not all. I occasionally 
still  find a form that gives me an "invalid email" error when trying to 
use a dash. It's actually pretty surprising how many coders of systems 
and forms don't know what t he list of characters that are valid in 
email addresses is. But acceptance of the plus sign is  getting better.  
I regular see systems that didn't support it previously bust start 
supporting it after some system upgrade or change.

Again, I hope all this and the bash script that I submitted helps 
someone.  And sorry for my hacking up the format of these replies. I 
think this is my first time replying since I switched to digest mode.

-Jerome


On 7/14/2024 5:24 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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