On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, Steve Atkins wrote: > > On Jun 19, 2018, at 8:10 PM, Brandon Long via mailop > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > They used to use qmail which uses - instead of the more common + for > > multiple addresses, wonder if this is a side effect of the forwarding > > for ymail.com using qmail > > Likely. Though at one point it wasn't unusual to configure the separator > to be - instead of + because of all the web forms that didn't handle > escaping properly and would record "[email protected]" as "steve > [email protected]".
If they didn't just reject the address as invalid at the start, which was usual. I still have an alias configured (purpose long forgottten), of the form: jrb-bk-plussignsinemailaddressesareperfectlyvalid Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks, Network Manager, Information Services Directorate, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SC015263. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
