Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!TRANSARC.COM!Craig_Everhart From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Problem with ams Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 90 18:43:35 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 As Nathaniel says, without AMDS the forms with plus signs mean nothing. Here's what I believe is happening. Since your domain (unix.cis.pitt.edu) doesn't run AMDS (and since AMS knows it), the ``+'' character looks to the heuristic name matcher just like other noise/punctuation characters. Thus, when you compose mail to jjc+@unix.cis.pitt.edu, the validation routines turn it into jjc@unix.cis.pitt.edu before writing it into mail headers, so that other sites can reply to it. In particular, your From: address has no plus-sign in it. Or have you hacked your local sendmail to notice the ``+'' character as a UID delimiter? Even if so, there's no simple way to tell AMS that your site uses the ``+'' delimiter rule other than by turning on AMDS; you can, if you like, disable WP validation entirely, but that doesn't sound like what you want to do. (Yes, it would be nice to have an option to tell AMS to use the ``+'' convention independent of AMDS.) We're guessing at your local config and at what you want to do; feel free to fill in the gaps. But in any case the ``+'' is a delivery-system configuration, not something that comes bundled with WP. Craig