Config in Pine utility

[Mikael Vejdemo Johansson]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Magnus Lindkvist wrote:
> Ursäkta en dum fråga - plusadress? Jag har aldrig hört talas om det. Är det
> något som står i mail-rfc'n?
>

Se Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address):
According to RFC 2821 2.3.10 Mailbox and Address, "...the local-part MUST 
be interpreted and assigned semantics only by the host specified in the 
domain part of the address.".

Plus addressing is one of the benefits of this limitation. Some mail 
services allow a user to append +tag to their e-mail address 
(joeuser+tag at example.com). The text of tag can be used to apply filtering.

Some systems violate RFC 2822, and the recommendations in RFC 3696, by 
refusing to send mail addressed to a user on another system merely because 
the local-part of the address contains the plus sign (+). Users of these 
systems cannot use plus addressing.

On the other hand, most qmail installations support the use of a dash '-' 
as a separator within the local-part, such as joeuser-tag at example.com or 
joeuser-tag-sub-anything-else at example.com. This allows qmail through 
.qmail-default or .qmail-tag-sub-anything-else files to sort, filter, 
forward, or run application based on the tagging system established.

Disposable e-mail addresses of this form, using various separators between 
the base name and tag are supported by several e-mail services, including 
Runbox (plus and minus), Google Mail (plus), Yahoo! Mail Plus (minus)[3], 
and FastMail (plus)[4].

> magnus
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stacken-bounces at stacken.kth.se [mailto:stacken-bounces at stacken.kth.se]
> On Behalf Of Jon Larsson
> Sent: den 6 augusti 2008 12:33
> To: Stacken club general discussion
> Subject: Re: Config in Pine utility
>
>
> För övrigt tror jag mig ha identifierat ytterligare ett problem med
> flytten till Exchange: plusadressering
> (användare+valfritt_tillägg at kth.se) tycks inte längre fungera. Vilket
> är något irriterande när man är registrerad på ett gäng e-postlistor
> och webbtjänster med plusadresser och därmed inte längre får de
> mailen... *morr*
>
> / Jon
>
>
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