Say you have a single mailbox (virtual or not, doesn�t matter):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Now, say you have in the file /[courierpath]/etc/aliases/yourdomain.com some
aliases like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


When courier receives mail to be delivered to yourdomain.com, it does its
normal routine and finds that the delivery is for an alias, and then it
sends it to the actual email for the alias definition. That�s all fine.
Works great.

However, sometimes people (mostly friggen spammers) don't include the TO
email address in the email. This gets left out somehow. However, it still
gets delivered (so courier obviously knows!). When you receive the email
that was sent to an alias, it goes to your "spamdrop" mailbox, and you cant
figure out which alias it was sent too. Even while examining the full
internet headers.

So... My question is... There a setting I am missing? Somewhere the headers
can be written too to add the actual destination address? Or maybe something
else.

Ideally I would have liked the "aliases" files to handle something like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: "bizzwang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: "wingding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Then, when its delivered, you would see it as a name to the mailbox address.

I'm a nut with aliases... Same with some clients. We make a new alias for
any new service, or site, or account created that needs an email box.

I then monitor my spam intake, and see where they sent spam too (which
alias). That way I know who the frelling idiots were who sold my email out.
Then I drop that alias and say goodbye to the spam from them. However, when
that spam gets delivered lacking the needed headers... I cant for the life
of me figure out what alias it was delivered too! AGH! Like lately these
lame "MS Security Patch" virus emails... Grrr.

Help? Please?



-Randall Shaw



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