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Re:How to run your own mail server (2017) by jimmaswell on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:23PM (#21580591)
If nobody supports it then why did you choose it?
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Re:How to run your own mail server (2017) by wpietri on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @12:17PM (#21585911)
This sort of snotty reply is one of the reasons I discourage people from using HN.

I chose it 20+ years ago because that's what qmail supported, back when subaddresing was a new idea. Over the ensuing years, most people ended up converging on + as the more common option, but that's only convention, not a standard. And what standard exists wasn't written until 2008: https://tools.https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233ietf.org/ht...

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Re:How to run your own mail server (2017) by jimmaswell on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:30PM (#21586818)
If you took that as snotty then that's on you. Maybe people who can't take every simple question not being a delicately delivered paragraph full of qualifiers should be discouraged from using HN, yeah.
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Re:How to run your own mail server (2017) by wpietri on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:40PM (#21591236)
Yes, please continue to blame readers for your words landing badly. That will surely work out well for you.
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