MLUG: Re: [MLUG] flexible e-mail addresses
Re: [MLUG] flexible e-mail addresses
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:

> Postfix, which I am more familiar with, has an option
> 'recipient_delimiter' which you can set to whatever character you want
> to separate the user from user-stuff or user+stuff.  It defaults to +, I
> changed mine to -.
>
> Mike> Finally, are spammers hip to the plus sign trick and do they strip
> Mike> everything that follows the plus sign before sending their spam?
>
> I have no clue about this.


Interesting.  We don't use '.' in our e-mail addresses, so I think I'd 
change it to '.' because that is often an important part of an address, so 
spammers won't truncate it.

Thanks for this message, especially the technical details.  Postfix seems 
like a great program.

Mike
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