[Info-vax] bizarre SMTP problem

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:58:22 UTC, "Steven Underwood" 
<nobody at spamcop.net> wrote:

> "Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
> news:176uZD2KcidF-pn2-PXhqF33pn2BN at rikki.tavi.co.uk...
> > On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:57:15 UTC, JF Mezei
> > <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Then it appears to be a bug, since '+' is perfectly valid as a character
> > in an email address, as per RFC 2822 section 3.4.1.
> > -- 
> > Bob Eager
> >
> 
> That may be, but there are lots of systems that do not honor plussed 
> addressing.  My mail provider (SpamCop.net) allows for plussed addressing 
> but many web based systems find those addresses to be illegally formatted. 

I've come across at least two ISPs where plussed addressing is used to 
specify multiple mailboxes, of the form account+mailbox. Not that I like
it...

I seem to have stirred up a hornets' nest among the "VMS does it this 
way so it cannot be wrong" fraternity. I was merely venturing an opinion
on the 'is it a bug?' issue! I thought this only happened in Linux 
newsgroups...!

-- 
Bob Eager