On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:37:55PM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 1/23/2009, hose (h...@bluemaggottowel.com) wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what the formal name of the email technique of
> > placing something + a delimiter + your email is? I can't seem to
> > remember...
>
> Are you talking about 'plus-addressing'?
The postfix terms of art are:
- recipient "delimiter", the "+" or sometimes "-" (...)
character that separates the base address from the address:
- "extension", the rest of the address localpart between
the delimiter and the domain.
These are often used with the envelope sender address in VERP to
facilitate bounce processing in bulk mailings.
Another use it to help sort mail for a recipient into various "folders"
by giving different senders different mail address extensions to use
when sending mail to the same person. These were a key feature of the
CMU Cyrus mail system.
--
Viktor.
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