[Dovecot] [PATCH] LMTP: Permit user IDs containing recipient_delimiter

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 17:45 +0100, Ulrich Zehl wrote:
> The Dovecot 2.1 LMTP server currently always strips the address extension
> from a recipient address (if recipient_delimiter is set), meaning user IDs
> cannot contain the recipient delimiter character, e.g. "user+foo" is not
> supported.
> 
> This was surprising for me, as Postfix behaves differently in this regard:
> It first looks up "user+foo", and only then "user".
> 
> The attached patch works for me and brings Dovecot's behavior in line with
> Postfix. Please let me know what you think about it.

What do you need this for? Do you really have usernames that have '+'
characters? Sounds like a bad idea. In Postfix it makes more sense,
because you might want user+ext to be delivered differently, but with
Dovecot you can do this in Sieve.