[TriLUG] address extensions - user+foo at trilug.org

Carl Schaefer schaefer at trilug.org
Fri Mar 14 13:38:04 EDT 2014


On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 08:12 -0400, Bill Farrow wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Carl Schaefer <schaefer at trilug.org> wrote:
> > Does the trilug.org mail system support address extensions, e.g.
> >
> >      username+ext at trilug.org
> >
> > It seems that it currently doesn't, and I wonder if this is due
> > to administrative objections, lack of interest to date, or ...
> > Does anyone know, or have thoughts on whether enabling this would
> > be a net win?
> 
> You're the first person to bring this up. Please investigate this
> further.

I think Scott's suggestion to add:

  recipient_delimiter = +

to /etc/postfix/main.cf would work.  The default value of forward_path
is:

  $home/.forward${recipient_delimiter}${extension}, $home/.forward

which provides another way, in addition to sieve, to process mail to
different extensions.
Carl


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