Re: [Fetchmail-users] email plus addressing?

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 08.04.23 um 11:28 schrieb Andrew C Aitchison:
>
>> Am 08.04.23 um 04:19 schrieb Howard Spindel:
>>> Experimenting today with plus addressing on email.
>>>
>>> What I found is that fetchmail issues a warning that the recipient
>>> address+test doesn't match any local name (because it doesn't!).
>>> Everything still works because fetchmail passes the email off to
>>> sendmail which understands to strip off the plus addressing.
>>>
>>> Should fetchmail support plus addressing without issuing a warning?
>
> One page explaining what "plus addressing" is:
> https://www.codetwo.com/admins-blog/plus-addressing/

Thanks. I know what it is, I have been using it for a quarter century
for direct ingress mail organization with qmail (briefly, as minus
addressing) and then Postfix. The lists I host myself use it in VERP.

> Not sure I agree wit you Matthias.

You do not need to.

> Assuming you do know what Howard means by "plus addressing",
> his request is clear enough. Howard did not mean to prescribe
> *how* the issue is addressed - others on the list may have ideas
> - but it is reasonable to suggest that it works without producing
> warnings.

I am saying I need to see the specific warnings and the configuration,
and please not made up beyond recognition. This depends on too many
options to look in the right place in the code. No passwords please, and
feel free to replace domains by example.org.

Everything else is a waste of my time,
and everyone wants me to spend time on implementation, not on hunting a
cursorily described cosmetic bug and asking questions and then still
fixing something else that doesn't resolve the issue.