On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:37:21PM -0800, Jerry Asher wrote:
Qmail has wonderful behavior that supports my mangling of the reply-to address. You can send a message to me at jerry@hollyjerry.org, or jerry-junk@hollyjerry.org, or jerry-webvan@ or you can put anything after the hyphen. It will get to me all the same, OR I can set up qmail in a procmail like fashion to pass the message to a script which can filter the messages based on the data after the hyphen. So one way to encode the bbs thread data is to set the reply to "bboard-thread-2FC24@mybboard.com".
Typical djb mistake. There's been a defined protocol for that that well predates qmail (unless I'm much mistaken); the defined character is a "+". No, it's not a formal standard... but it's apparently a widely defined informal standard.
Cheers, -- jra
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