On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Mark wrote:
That could have elegantly been solved, using a trick with sendmail's
"plussed users" capability, where I would create a dummy alias like
this:
SRS0+*: dummy(_at_)test(_dot_)com
I thought you could specify OperatorChars in sendmail.
You can. But you cannot use it to change the + character in the plussed user
facility. Funny thing is, sendmail does have a wildcard *, but it can only
be used in conjunction with the + character:
john+*(_at_)doe(_dot_)com
Will work (for john+a@, john+ab@, etc.) But,
john*(_at_)doe(_dot_)com
Will not.
So it will use (IIRC, it's been a long time since my sendmail days) any
OperatorChar as a terminator for the address when delivering, but will
only allow you to use + in milters or with the * character? (Milters are
distinctly after my time, I think).
Or am I confusing this whole show with MMDF, which requires you to use the
= in the mailertables/.maildelivery file? Does anyone here use mmdf? Has
anyone considered patching MMDF? Does anyone anywhere still use MMDF
(apart from my delightful current parent organisation, that is)?
I honestly don't understand why anyone still uses sendmail. If it's doing
the job, it's fine, but if it isn't, it's usually quicker to setup exim to
spec than to work out why sendmail is broken.
You will be glad to know that version 0.19 will permit you to specify the
initial character of your SRS addresses, therefore this feature will once
again become available.
Great!! Really useful. Thanks.
Yur. Cool. I should go to sleep before 3am. This is ruining my sleep
patterns. *giggle* I'm dangerous near specs or ideas.
S.
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