Sub addressing delimiters

[Timo Sirainen]

On 23 Aug 2016, at 10:42, Kurt Fitzner <kurt+dove at va1der.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> There is a disconnect between the way Postfix handles recipient_delimiter and the way Dovecot handles it.  For Postfix, it is a set of delimiters that can each individually be used to separate the address from the .  In Dovecot, having multiple characters in recipient_delimiters simply makes it a multi-character single delimiter.
> 
> For my purposes, the Postfix method is much more versatile.  Extra delimiters can be added without breaking the way users currently have delimiters.
> 
> I am wondering what the odds are of reconciling the two approaches, hopefully in favour of the Postfix one.  Failing a switch to the other behaviour, is it possible to add the Postfix method as an option?  Would a patch for either of these be accepted?

For v2.3 (maybe early next year): https://git.dovecot.net/dovecot/core/commit/972c9172e9e6a0fc6053efb3d2ee9d354b67727f