[ale] Looking for advise on domain names and other info wrt local network.

[ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim Lynch)]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 2008/8/12 Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>:
>   
>> That's what I'm looking for.  One more question.  What is the purpose of
>> the:
>>
>>         @localdomain.local			hisaccount+local at hisisp.example
>>     
>
> Ahh, that line will convert anything not specified above it (for the
> same domain) into an outbound email address like:
> jimpop+local at realdomain.tld.  The plus (+) has special meaning wrt
> email and will generally cause everything to the right, up to the @,
> to be ignored.   So... receiving systems will only attempt to validate
> the authenticity of jimpop at realdomain.tld, yet the recipient can see
> the +local part.
>   
OK thanks, that makes sense.

Jim.