Re: plus addresses

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:03:57 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.imap.courier.general
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Daniel Zwick writes:

> Am 20.06.2024 um 23:42 schrieb Sam Varshavchik:
>> Andrew Athan writes:
>>
>>> Sorry to trouble the list with what may be a trivial question, but
>>> is there a quick way to support "plus addresses" in courier? E.g.  
>>> [email protected] is a valid address means automatically that also
>>> [email protected] is a valid address....
>>
>> No, but "minus addresses" work the same way:
>>
>> [email protected]
>
> Postfix allows to configure this:
> https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#recipient_delimiter
>
> Useful, if someone would migrate from a different server software. I think  
> it would be good to have this option in Courier as well.

The reason for Postfix's setting is so that it's Postfix that can be adapted  
to mimic other mail servers. Qmail and Courier use "-". Sendmail uses "+". I  
don't recall which one came first, but Qmail used "-" from the beginning and  
Sendmail's behavior was not really baked into the sendmail itself, but, as I  
recall, sendmail's complex configuration file could be rigged to handle mail  
this way, so it wasn't even baked into Sendmail, at least not at first. And,  
as I recall, Postfix was pretty late to the game, so it was set up to mimic  
either one of the two popular conventions for this.

Having said that, it's not really a lot of trouble to make it configurable,  
I'll look into it at the next free moment. Still, Sendmail is outvoted here.  
"-" is the historical standard, not "+". Qmail popularized this first.

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