Re: Sub-addressing ("plus-addressing") questions...

2020-10-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Oct 2020, at 16:59, Nick wrote: Looks like the relevant RFCs (apart from RFC822, RFC2822 and the ones that followed) seem to be RFC3598 which was later obsoleted by RFC5233 and none of them seem to say what should happen if the delimiter is there multiple times... Neither 3598 nor 5233

Re: Sub-addressing ("plus-addressing") questions...

2020-10-15 Thread Nick
Hi! On 2020-10-14 3:33 p.m., Phil Stracchino wrote: On 10/14/20 3:20 PM, Nick wrote: I also have to tell the developers of our applications what should be allowed... Good luck with that one. I have encountered INNUMERABLE werb sites which fervently insist that '+' is not a legal character in

Re: Sub-addressing ("plus-addressing") questions...

2020-10-15 Thread Nick
Hi! On 2020-10-14 9:29 p.m., Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 01:09:33PM +1300, Peter wrote: On 15/10/20 8:20 am, Nick wrote: Is it possible to have more than one "+" sign in the email address, what does Postfix do when it sees that, does it stop at the first one and considers e

Re: Sub-addressing ("plus-addressing") questions...

2020-10-14 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 01:09:33PM +1300, Peter wrote: > On 15/10/20 8:20 am, Nick wrote: > > Is it possible to have more than one "+" sign in the email address, what > > does Postfix do when it sees that, does it stop at the first one and > > considers everything that follow a sub-addres? > >

Re: Sub-addressing ("plus-addressing") questions...

2020-10-14 Thread Peter
On 15/10/20 8:20 am, Nick wrote: Is it possible to have more than one "+" sign in the email address, what does Postfix do when it sees that, does it stop at the first one and considers everything that follow a sub-addres? Yes. Postfix uses the strcspn() C function to do the split which expli

Re: Sub-addressing ("plus-addressing") questions...

2020-10-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/14/20 3:20 PM, Nick wrote: > I also have to tell the developers of our applications what should be > allowed... Good luck with that one. I have encountered INNUMERABLE werb sites which fervently insist that '+' is not a legal character in an email address. > Is it possible to have more th