Can cyrus use a "-" the same as a "+" in username?

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Wed Nov 10 00:02:15 EST 2004


On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Ken Murchison wrote:

>> + as a detail separator is typically done in the config file for your mta 
>> and not in anything cyrus-specific. so it's (typically) a question of how 
>> to tweak config files for your particular mta. the sendmail macros we use 
>> have a class in which possible detail separator characters are listed (and 
>> i think we use # and + for historical reasons)
>
> But lmtpd is hard-coded to split user and mailbox on '+'.

Ah right, I forgot that, and really I shouldn't have, since I was 
looking at that code for other reasons recently.

We could add an option, and it's probably not a horrible thing to do so.

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