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 ;) -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Using The Bat! v2.10.01 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 A KGB keyboard has no ESC KEY.
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