[pacman-dev] Fwd: [PATCH] rankmirrors: Add a --repo option to target a specific repo

[Xavier Chantry]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Xavier Chantry
<chantry.xavier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Uh, I didn't even know about about that gmail special feature "plus
> addressing". You didn't mention that, I thought you created another
> full account.
> I learned it there : http://www.php.net/manual/fr/ref.mail.php#70912
> I suppose gmail accounts cannot have + then ?
>
> So yeah it seems it's gmail smtp server that accepts name+foo address,
> but it drops the +foo part.
> And gmail web interface must do something special to talk to smtp server then.
>
> But you don't need a different address to filter messages from a
> mailing list. Or maybe you have other special needs.
>

Just a correction from Dan, since no one did before :
it's not a gmail special feature at all as the guy said in the above
link, it's actually a standard that some providers and mail servers
follow, and others violate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Sub-addressing
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233