<OT>?? email recipients

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
>On Wednesday 28 November 2007 16:34:27 Rick Bowers wrote:
>> Did I completely misunderstand the Rick-yyy at mydomain.xxx philosophy
>> or have I setup something wrong? Is there a way to do what I want
>> without specifying rules at the DNS?
>
>I think you might have confused - for + .. e.g doug+amazon at hunley.homeip.net
>
>according to the rfcs, the mailer is supposed to support that and simply strip 
>the +amazon part and deliver to doug at hunley.homeip.net

This is fairly standard.  Postfix allows you to change this using
the recipient_delimiter option in the main.cf file.

Beware that using ``-'' may well present problems with mailing
list software that commonly uses things like ``listname-owner''.

One could probably add the ``-'' addresses to your MTA's aliases
file as a crude workaround on this.

Having control of my own mail servers, I prefer to set up aliases
for this type of tagged addresses (e.g linux-sxs at celestial.com is
only used for this mailing list).  This allows me to route
incoming mail using the ``Delivered-To:'' header inserted
automatically by postfix which may be easier than digging into
things like ``List-Id:'' headers.

Bill
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