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.

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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.

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