On Monday 27 July 2009 16:57:20 mouss wrote:
> /dev/rob0 a écrit :
> > Unfortunately, I have found that many Web programmers don't bother to
> > read RFC's and find out what characters are allowed in email addresses.
> > Many sites will not accept a "+" in your username. I think the old
> > default qmail delimiter, "-", is a better choice for those just now
> > switching to recipient_delimiter use. Another good one would be ".".
> >
> > To name one, I tried to get automobile insurance with GEICO, a large
> > insurer in the USA. If I had access to my old virtual_alias_maps I
> > could find many more who rejected the "+".
>
> I've seen many sites that refuse '+', but for now, no site that refuses
> '-'. unfortunately, I am not happy with using '-' because:
>
> - many french names have a '-': "jean-pierre", ...
> - '-' is used in mailing-lists
Understood on both counts, but is this really a problem? As the
documentation for recipient_delimiter states, the full LHS string is
tried first. Your jean-pie...@example.fr could still use
jean-pierre-...@example.fr. I guess the problem occurs only for
j...@example.fr if he wants to use jean-pie...@example.fr. And there,
you have a political / administrative issue.
Seems like there is NO perfect choice here ... and all because of
incompetent Web monkeys. :(
> up so far, I have pcre maps for specific users to alias joe-ext to
> joe+ext. but I will be moving to using '-' with a subdomain:
> joe-extens...@silly.$domain
> where "joe" is necessarily '-' free (so jean-pierre would be jpierre,
> ...etc. while he could complain for the "normal" domain, he can't
> complain for @silly.$domain, since this is done to help him).
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