[Mailman-Developers] Wildly OT - qmail and mangling (was: mailman and the web)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

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
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra@baylink.com
Member of the Technical Staff     Baylink
The Suncoast Freenet         The Things I Think
Tampa Bay, Florida        http://baylink.pitas.com             +1 727 804 5015