* [D. J. Bernstein on 06/08/01 04:05 -0000]
> In fact, the first two major MTAs to support automatic subaddressing by
> default were MMDF and qmail. MMDF used =.
Thanks for the clarification :)
> It was, and is, inconvenient to support - in sendmail, because dividing
> names at non-special characters is a pain, and making - special would
> break deliveries to hyphenated usernames. This is why sendmail started
> using +.
I always wondered about this, in fact.
-suresh
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org
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