Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-21 Thread Martin Marcher
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Postfix, I think, interpets "foo+bar" the same as "foo". yup it does, but "foo" has to be a valid localpart so "foo+bar" -> foo foo+baz -> foo f+oobar -> f - which is a different user (aliases set aside) famous call on plus addressing, and you it's just a default you can

[OT] Valid Mail addresses modifications (WAS: Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick)

2008-01-21 Thread Martin Marcher
Martin Vilcans wrote: > Try the SMTP spec. IIRC there's a passage there that says that the > server should try to make sense of addresses that don't map directly > to a user name. Specifically, it says that firstname.lastname should > be mapped to the user with those first and last names. Short s

Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Martin Vilcans
On Jan 20, 2008 8:58 PM, Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are you saying that when i have 2 gmail addresses > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > they are actually treated the same? That is plain wrong and would break a > lot of mail addresses as I have 2 that follow just

RE: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Postfix, I think, interpets "foo+bar" the same as "foo". Gmail does the same. It's quite useful - apart from using it to determine which site I signed up to has sent me mail, I also use it so I can have multiple Guild Wars accounts using the same email account e.g. [EMAI

Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:13:03 +, Neil Hodgson wrote: > Martin Marcher: > >> are you saying that when i have 2 gmail addresses >> >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >> they are actually treated the same? That is plain wrong and would break >> a lot of mail addresses as I hav

Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Neil Hodgson
Martin Marcher: > are you saying that when i have 2 gmail addresses > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > they are actually treated the same? That is plain wrong and would break a > lot of mail addresses as I have 2 that follow just this pattern and they > are delivered correctly

Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:38:06 -0200, Joshua Gilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > My task is this: Loop through an email and create as many combinations of > periods as possible. So all the combinations for blah would be: > > b.lah > bl.ah > bla.h > b.l.ah > b.la.h > bl.a.h I'd use a recursive

Re: Looping through the gmail dot trick

2008-01-20 Thread Martin Marcher
On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:38 Joshua Gilman wrote: > So I have a very interesting task ahead of me and it is to loop through an > email using the 'gmail dot trick'. Essentially this trick puts periods > throughout your email to make it look different. Even though it has > periods gmail will repl