[ale] email aliases and wildcards

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Mon Apr 12 16:53:56 EDT 2004


On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Jason Etheridge wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I want to set up a mailer that will deliver incoming mail to specific 
> mailboxes according to patterns and not just simple aliases.
> 
> For example, how could I get all email addressed to 
> issue-????@support.magusaptus.com to be delivered to user issue, if 
> ???? can be any number?
> 
> Currently I'm using postfix, but I'm willing to make use of other SMTP 
> servers.

Postfix does this automatically, but the separator it uses is "+" 
(user+anything goes to user). You can change it with the parameter

recipient_delimiter

in main.cf

later,
chris



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