On Friday, May 07, 2004, Januk Aggarwal wrote...

JA>> Yes it is... I believe most SMTP servers treat anything after the
JA>> + sign as method of separation... ie, anything before the + is
JA>> the real mailbox, anything after the client could use to do
JA>> filtering on. I've seen postfix and sendmail working like this,
JA>> and I believe qmail does too.

> Interesting. So a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> would get
> delivered to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and the +ricky *could* be used as
> the client wishes?

That is the behaviour in the above mentioned SMTP servers. You can
test, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or randomly pick anything after the + to
prove I've not randomly made up some aliases for you :) Though a
random thought on my end, I have a filtering agent setup that might
not like them... we'd have to see.

JA>> Does \w match high end characters like characters with umlauts?

> I don't think so. As far as I've seen, "\w" is the same as
> "[a-zA-Z0-9]".

Ahhh... excellent.  Thought I'd just make sure ;)

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