where does +detail come from?

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:55:20AM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>Does anyone have any more specific information than that?
> 
> AFAIK it's not a thingy that was slipped in. It really is a standard part 
> of the email addressing scheme. It's possible to disable it but why would 
> you?

No, I'm pretty sure that's not true.  IIRC RFC 822 (and its bastard
step-cousins) only say that what is on the left side of the '@' is up
to the individual implementation.  I'm also pretty sure that some
other MTAs (either postfix and/or qmail) use a '-' instead of a '+' to
implement this feature, making it at least non-standard in practice.

As usual, I'm too lazy to look up the details, so  this is all from
memory which is known to have bad transistors.  Therefore I disclaim
all waranties implied or otherwise, and all that jazz...  ;-)

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