On 8-Apr-2009, at 11:59, Daniel Hahler wrote:
when user+...@example.com gets forwarded to an external address
through
virtual_alias_maps, the local part "+foo" is being kept.
+foo is not 'the local part', 'user+foo' is the local user, and + is a
recipient delimiter. If you are passing the email along somewhere
else, it is proper to send the entire email address, including the
delimiter and
This causes problems with e.g. GMX, which then bounces the mail, since
they consider "+foo" to be part of the username (and that does not
exist).
Then GMX is broken or misconfigured or just doesn't want to accept
delimited user names.
Either allow and support delimited addresses, or don't. Accepting
them and then discarding them is... well, not right.
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