Kris Deugau:
> grarpamp wrote:
> > I've done - (qmail) to + (postfix) hurriedly in the past to avoid a
> > meta issue. Other users migration or dual uses aside, with that
> > one I wanted to but did not have benefit to research whether
> > + or - had better merits. Such as which is in more common use now,
> > which is trending to be more prevalent in the long term. And why?
> > Honestly, best I could come up with was the large - legacy from
> > decade old qmail-like installations, and not requiring the shift key
> > seemed to win, heh :) I'm sure there are more sound thoughts
> > on the matter in a paper somewhere.
>
> - has the fairly significant advantage of being allowed on more sites
> that try to validate "well-formed" email addresses - often in
> Javascript. Many such validators reject + in an email address. :(
It would be relatively easy to implement "truncate the localpart
at the first instance of any character in the delimiter set, then
do one table lookup" (basically, replacing strchr() with strcspn()).
This would allow one to use '-' for some websites and '+' for others.
This could later be made more configurable, for example "for each
delimiter in the specified order: truncate the localpart, do
table lookup, and stop after the first successful lookup".
As long as users stick to names with [a-zA-Z0-9.], the first,
simpler, implementation should be sufficient.
Wietse
