Re: googlegroups strips recipient delimiter

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On 25/03/2012 22:49, Jorge Luis wrote:
> Friends,
>
> Unless I have procmail and/or mutt misconfigured, I've run across a
> problem with the vim mailing lists in particular and possibly
> googlegroups in general.
>
> It seems that googlegroups strips any recipient delimiter from an
> address when crafting any message destined as a reply.
>
> For example, I registered for vim_use with the address,
> <list+vim@jorge.cc>. Replies--or any post, in fact--from the mailing
> list are addressed to <list@jorge.cc>.
>
> Not a big deal, perhaps, but I use the "+" recipient delimiter and the
> following extension to filter incoming mailing list messages and route
> them to a specific mailfolder and/or a forwarding address.
>
> The deletion of the recipient delimiter and its extension appears to
> extend to all relevant headers in mailing list postings.
>
> It's a little odd because the googlegroups subscription interface
> relies on a recipient delimiters to distinguish subscription requests
> from other administrivia.
>
> Has anyone else noticed this behavior and perhaps devised some means
> of retaining the recipient delimiter and its extension in any of the
> standard googlegroups headers? X-Original_To:, To:, or any other
> header?

FWIW, your message dropped in my inbox getting missed by my filters as
you seem to use:

<vim_use@vim.org>

instead of:

<vim_use@googlegroups.com>

Whether this is relevant at all, I'm not sure.

Cheers,

Phil...

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