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It’s rather the opposite: Spammers used to exploit that mechanism back when it was more widely enabled.
by layer8 1y ago
It’s rather the opposite: Spammers used to exploit that mechanism back when it was more widely enabled.
- andai 1y agoI'm not sure I understand. Why would the website use that format then?
- layer8 1y agoThe respective mailserver likely checks which domains it is forwarding mails to, e.g. only allowing netbsd.org, or only allowing mails from localhost. In the more distant past, that wasn’t the case, so spammers would send their mails to the domain of such mail servers, who would blindly forward it to whatever domain is encoded after the percent sign in the local part. They’d effectively serve as an open mail relay then.