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

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Tue Nov 9 20:36:29 EST 2004


Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Dan Delaney wrote:
> 
>> Can cyrus be configured so that "foo-bar at blah.com" works the same as 
>> "foo+bar at blah.com"?  Not use the - INSTEAD of +, but rather, use either.
> 
> 
> + 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 '+'.

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