email edit

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:21:59 -0500):
>
>> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 03:07:00PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:50:31PM -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
>> > [...]
>> > > > I wouldn't be surprised if you can have more than one @
>> > >
>> > > You can't.
>> >
>> > Then why does <"foo at bar"@hvcomputer.com> work?
>>
>>
>> Well, RFC 2822 is pretty opaque in its choice of syntax, but that does
>> actually appear to be legal.
>>
>> The same Berns steak offer applies, if you can find a production
>> mailbox with an at-sign in it's name -- that is, one that wasn't
>> created to win a steak dinner.  :-)
>
>Well, I've used it (rarely) along with the "+" syntax, to provide
>unique (ie: traceable back to its source, should it receive spam)
>addresses.  (Though I usually use "_" in such cases, simply for
>ease of use.)

Postfix defaults to the '+' character for tagged addresses,
delivering to the username before the '+'.  The routines I've
written that do server side routing of incoming messages into
Maildir folders, can split these into folders with the folder
name being the part after the '+'.

Bill
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