On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:37:21PM -0800, Jerry Asher wrote:
> Qmail has wonderful behavior that supports my mangling of the reply-to
> address. You can send a message to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], or jerry-webvan@ or you can put anything after
> the hyphen. It will get to me all the same, OR I can set up qmail in a
> procmail like fashion to pass the message to a script which can filter the
> messages based on the data after the hyphen. So one way to encode the bbs
> thread data is to set the reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Typical djb mistake. There's been a defined protocol for that that
well predates qmail (unless I'm much mistaken); the defined character
is a "+". No, it's not a formal standard... but it's apparently a
widely defined informal standard.
Cheers,
-- jra
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