[Mimedefang] Need advise on how to proceed.

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Sun Jun 13 20:58:23 EDT 2004


On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> Now if we can just convince webmasters to allow "+" in their email forms,
> so we can use throwaway addresses without multiplying the list of valid
> recipients. I run into too many form writers who restrict the allowed
> characters in addresses too much, forcing me to either use my unadorned
> default address or a default entry in virtusertable.

<rant>
Don't get me started.  We're having our web site redesigned, and the
designers put in a riduculously strict test for a "valid" e-mail address
(as if such a test were even possible.)
</rant>

Remember, the e-mail address:

	"@&*#^&&@^#@&^#@!!"@roaringpenguin.com

is perfectly valid (and quite accurately reflects my sentiments upon
encountering such mis-designed Web forms...)

To get around stupid Web designers, you can probably modify the Sendmail
config file to use a different character (like underscore or period) instead
of a plus sign for the "plus hack".  But that's a lot of work.

Regards,

David.



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