Re: Email Subaddressing

"D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu> Fri, 01 August 1997 19:28 UTC

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From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu>
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Subject: Re: Email Subaddressing
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> So somebody who wants to create and market *only* an LDA or *only* a
> submission agent should be shut out of the competitive process because
> there's no way to interoperate?

I specifically pointed out that submission agents in qmail are
interchangeable, and that delivery agents are interchangeable even
across qmail and sendmail.

> How can those remote users obtain the benefits of subaddressing?

They select software that can easily be configured to handle their local
subaddresses.

> (BTW, I tried to follow http://pobox.com/~djb/ezmlm.html and got
> "http://pobox.com/nobodyezmlm.html - 404 file not found".)

Thanks. Looks like pobox screwed up their forwarding for FTP URLs. You
can use ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ezmlm.html for now.

---Dan
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