[TriLUG] wildcards in /etc/aliases

Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail.com
Thu Jul 27 21:11:00 EDT 2006


Well, this is absolutely something you do NOT want to use
procmail for.  Recipient delimiters belong in the MTA, not in
the MDA.

But, if you want to do this, see this e-mail message

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2004-01/1944.html

Cheers,
Tanner

On 7/27/06, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I may switch to the - then... and use my local procmail to filter the
> ones with the + if I can accomplish writing the regex correctly...
> LOL!  :)
>
> thanks,
> David McD
>
>
> On 7/27/06, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/26/06, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > can you have more than 1 delimiter field?  I setup + so far... and as
> > > you mentioned, i have run across a few sites that don't allow + in the
> > > email address field... so ya, thanks.  :)
> >
> > No, but with postfix you can achieve the same result.  Wietse
> > Venema posted on how to set it up using regular expressions
> > on one of the postfix lists several years ago.  Test your google-fu. :-)
> > (Alternatively, I can look it up when I get home this evening.)
> > My experience with it, though, is that it's not quite as seamless
> > as you would hope it would be.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tanner
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Tanner Lovelace
clubjuggler at gmail dot com
http://wtl.wayfarer.org/
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increscent, all sable.



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