[Dovecot] recipient delimiter and lmtp

[Charles Marcus]

On 5/29/2009, Charles Marcus (CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com) wrote:
>>>> Hmm. Stephan, you currently have sieve_subaddress_sep setting. Should we
>>>> instead use a common setting here? Like:
>>>>
>>>> protocol lda {
>>>>   recipient_delimiter = +
>>>> }

>>> With v1.2 it probably wouldn't do anything, but with v2.0 LMTP could use
>>> it.

>> Sounds sensible. I can for instance make the plugin use this setting if
>> sieve_subaddress_sep is not set.

> How hard would it be to allow the use of more than one delimiter?
> Obviously this would have to be well documented, explaining the
> pitfalls, and sysadmins would have to make sure that that character was
> illegal when it came to creating the actual accounts...

The reason I ask is, some sites don't allow the use of the '+'
delimiter, so having a second optional character, and/or the ability to
use a dot anywhere in the local part, would provide a workaround to
these site...

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Best regards,

Crles