How to win friends

[marthter]

On 10-11-12 01:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:38:37AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> A lot don't take + in email address usernames.  + is perfectly legal
>> according to the RFC.
>> ...
> gmail nicely allows that too.  Very annoying that many websites don't
> allow + in the email, given it is very much legal.
>
> So many useless website designers out there. :(
qmail has a similar feature too, except it uses a minus sign instead of 
a plus sign.  It is enabled by having an (empty) .qmail-default file in 
the user's home directory.  I think minus sign is a little more often 
accepted by sloppily validated web forms too.

Martin

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