[ILUG] Re: Multidrop Mail

Smelly Pooh plop at redbrick.dcu.ie
Sun Sep 17 14:19:39 IST 2000


In reply to Dave Wilson's flatulent wordings, 
> > use plussed addresses. eg:
> > 
> > school+paul at eircom.ie
> > school+john at eircom.ie
> 
> This still relies on parsing the RFC822 header, which is trouble - and I think
> that plussed addresses are a sendmail feature, so even if it works on Eircom
> at the moment (I haven't checked), there's no guarantee they'll continue to
> work if Eircom choose to change their MTA in the future. Useful only if you
> run your own MTA, I'm afraid.

+ addresses are a feature of every mail server I've come across (sendmail,
exim, postfix and qmail), unfortunately I've tried using them with a few ISP
e-mail accounts (including eircom) and they don't seem to be enabled




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