Bug#266745: exim4: [router userforward] should support plus-addressing by default

[Marc Haber]

tags #266745 wontfix
severity #266745 wishlist
thanks

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 01:23:52AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Would it be reasonable to ship exim with plus-addressing enabled?

I do not think so. plus-addressing is quite exotic nowadays.

> I suggest adding to routers userforward and the localuser:
> 
>         local_part_suffix = +*
>         local_part_suffix_optional
> 
> to be the factory default.

Being a rabid user of plus-addressing myself, I know of the
implication of enabling this which would be a surprise for users.

Especially handling plus addressing in connection with alias files is
surprsingly non-trivial if you want an alias "foo: bar" to forward
"foo+baz" to "bar+baz", leaving the suffix intact.

Maybe it would be an option to make this configurable, but do not
expect this to happen for sarge.

Greetings
Marc

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