Re: plus addresses

Well, I suppose if we're counting votes by mail system, we should point out
that gmail also adopted + delimiters.

It would be nice for this to be configurable so that transitioning away
from any popular system to courier is supported :)

I assume you'll be limiting the set of possible delimiter characters, as we
wouldn't want @, nor probably alphanumerics...

On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 5:05 AM Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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