Doug Hughes <Doug(_dot_)Hughes(_at_)Eng(_dot_)Auburn(_dot_)EDU> wrote:
Anyway, I'm trying to tackle the problem of aliases and "user+detail"
mail. For example, I've aliased user "kevin" to my account "kykim".
Now when I send mail to "kevin+test", I want it to go to "kykim+test",
but it just goes to "kykim".
Ah! You've probably run into the age-old alias misconception. When you alias
Sorry Doug, I think the misconception is all yours here :-).
No, I've actually experienced this first hand.
something to somebody else, the To: address stays the same.. In other
words, kykim needs something that looks for kevin+test, because the envelope
doesn't change on the message.
Actually, you probably mean, the envelope changes, but the header stays
the same. But this is not the point here...
Nothing about the message changes. The only thing that changes is that
the sendmail server does a RCPT TO somebody else. If you consider this
the envelope, then I guess you are correct. *shrug*
To answer the original question:
Is this a procmail configuration or sendmail configuration problem?
It's a sendmail configuration problem. The fix either needs substantial
changes in the sendmail.cf file, or you might try putting in
aliases like
kevin+test: kykim+test
Yes, but if he's processing on the To: field, this won't fix the problem,
the mail may go to kykim, but the "To" line will still say
kevin+test.
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