Re: Virtual Aliases Usage and Syntax Question

2009-09-27 Thread Erick Calder
, Wietse Venema wrote: Erick Calder: so I tried this: /^([^._\/-]*)[._\/-](.*)@arix\.com$/ ${1}+$...@arix.com Unfortunately, this causes Postfix to accept mail for non-existent recipients (the virtual alias matches a bogus of username portion, and Postfix discovers only upon delivery

Re: Virtual Aliases Usage and Syntax Question

2009-09-27 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 27, 2009, at 12:53 AM, LuKreme wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 0:53, Erick Calder e...@arix.com wrote: if the message were for no-ex...@arix.com then it gets rerouted to n...@arix.com which also doesn't exist and therefor bounces. Yes, it bounces. This makes you a backacatter source

Re: Virtual Aliases Usage and Syntax Question

2009-09-27 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 27, 2009, at 1:03 PM, LuKreme wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 2:52 AM, Erick Calder wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 12:53 AM, LuKreme wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 0:53, Erick Calder e...@arix.com wrote: if the message were for no-ex...@arix.com then it gets rerouted to n...@arix.com which

Re: Virtual Aliases Usage and Syntax Question

2009-09-27 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 25, 2009, at 7:12, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 9/24/2009, LuKreme (krem...@kreme.com) wrote: virtual_alias_maps = hash:$config_directory/virtual pcre:$config_directory/virtual.pcre, pcre:$config_directory/virtual_sql.pcre,

Re: Virtual Aliases Usage and Syntax Question

2009-09-27 Thread Erick Calder
thank you guys for taking the time to explain things. I see why it's an issue. On Sep 27, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: On 2009-09-27 Erick Calder wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 1:03 PM, LuKreme wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 2:52 AM, Erick Calder wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 12:53 AM

Re: Virtual Aliases Usage and Syntax Question

2009-09-26 Thread Erick Calder
, LuKreme wrote: On 25-Sep-2009, at 19:49, Erick Calder wrote: do I understand it correctly that when a message arrives with an address like ekkis_j...@arix.com you convert it to ekkis+j...@arix.com ? Exactly. if so, would you share your pcre? this I would really like to do because a lot

Re: Semi-OT: recipient delimiter spec/std?

2009-09-26 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 26, 2009, at 12:30 PM, mouss wrote: snip == virtual_alias_maps: /^(joe|jim|jane)-(.*)@(example\.net|example\.com)$/$1...@$3 this converts joe-...@example.com to joe+...@example.com If you don't want to generate the file (and update it when you add users), you can use mysql or

Re: Semi-OT: recipient delimiter spec/std?

2009-09-25 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 25, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Patrick Ben Koetter: Everybody seems to use recipient delimiters. I wonder if there's a standard that specifies a recipient delimiter functionality or did it just appear one day and people adopted it without a spec or anything. Anybody

Re: Semi-OT: recipient delimiter spec/std?

2009-09-25 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Erick Calder: this brings to mind: I've long used plussed addresses and love that feature but my only complaint is that many systems disallow the + sign in an e-mail address... is there a way to have a character bag work as the delimiter

Re: Semi-OT: recipient delimiter spec/std?

2009-09-25 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Erick Calder: On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Erick Calder: this brings to mind: I've long used plussed addresses and love that feature but my only complaint is that many systems disallow the + sign in an e-mail address

Re: Semi-OT: recipient delimiter spec/std?

2009-09-25 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 25, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Erick Calder: On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: snip You can't replace the delimiter. That would break other people's transit mail, among many things. I'm not sure I understand... perhaps we're speaking of 2 different

Re: message size bounce template

2009-09-24 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 24, 2009, at 4:01 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 24-Sep-2009, at 15:34, Erick Calder wrote: On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0700, Erick Calder wrote: I've been asking at the google groups mailing list with no results so I figure I'd

Re: message size bounce template

2009-09-24 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 24, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: If Postfix announces a size limit of X, many SMTP clients won't attempt to send larger messages, and Postfix won't accept a larger message (and thus Postfix will not generate a bounce email message). If you must configure Postfix to accept