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Wed Nov 28 20:12:09 PST 2007

At Wednesday 11/28/2007 10:17 PM, you wrote:
>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.

I'll check this.

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

So far, I haven't seen any problems, but that may be because I don't 
have things setup properly.

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

How does one do 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.

I'm not sure I understand the use of aliases in this context.  And 
I'm not sure filtering on "Delivered-To:" will work for me. Based on 
the mail headers I've reviewed,  the "Delivered-To:" value is my 
catch-all account name. I want to filter on the "To:" field. That is, 
I want to filter on the address the sender thought they were sending 
to, not the address that actually accepted the message. Here is a 
sample header ("BF" is my catch-all account in this case. In 
ZoneEdit, my DNS, I have a mail forward rule that says to forward 
"*@BowersFamily.US" to "BF at BowersFamily.US". In this example, I want 
to filter on "rick-godaddy.com at bowersfamily.us" -- and, just to 
confuse things further, but to help you understand what's going on in 
this header, my domain bowersfamily.us is an alias to 
addressunknown.us which is how my server is configured ;-) )

X-Persona: <BF>
Received: (qmail 24748 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2007 02:53:53 -0000
Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-bf at Mail.BowersFamily.US
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Thread-Topic: Special holiday savings for you, Richard Bowers!
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Subject: Special holiday savings for you, Richard Bowers!
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:48:17 -0700
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