[TriLUG] wildcards in /etc/aliases

David McDowell turnpike420 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 28 16:41:02 EDT 2006


nah, I'll take your advice and not do it in procmail...

On 7/27/06, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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