Re: mail configuration - 2nd attempt

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:36 -0800, Jack wrote:

Anyone know of a good reason for a mail server to have the "percent hack" turned on? I don't have it turned on on my server,but have a friend who has it enabled, probably because it was just on by default.

If by "percent hack" you are referring to the use of the % sign in place of the @ sign in the user@domain login name, the value would be to avoid screwing up an IMAP URL. Some IMAP servers allow you to have direct links that look something like imap://user@domain/folder. If the username is user@domain, then a URL of imap://user@domain@domain wouldn't work. Thus, the % sign.