A NOTE has been added to this issue. 
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http://www.dbmail.org/mantis/view.php?id=860 
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Reported By:                Disconnect
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    DBMail
Issue ID:                   860
Category:                   Database layer
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
target:                      
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Date Submitted:             22-Sep-10 18:43 CEST
Last Modified:              23-Sep-10 11:12 CEST
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Summary:                    Domain wildcard (@foo.com) overrides user wildcard
(user@)
Description: 
Looking at issue 105, I should be able to have the following entries:
joe -> joe@
jane -> @foo.com
with "j...@foo.com" going to Jane, and "j...@foo.com" going to Joe.
Instead, the more general @foo.com overrides the j...@.

Non-wildcard (j...@foo.com) overrides the wildcards, as expected.
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 (0003109) Disconnect (reporter) - 22-Sep-10 18:44
 http://www.dbmail.org/mantis/view.php?id=860#c3109 
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Doesn't seem like it will let me edit, so updated description:
Looking at issue 105, I should be able to have the following entries:
joe -> joe@, j...@foo.com
jane -> @foo.com

"j...@foo.com" should go to Jane, and "j...@foo.com" should go to Joe.
Instead, the more general @foo.com overrides the j...@.

Non-wildcard (j...@foo.com) overrides all the wildcards, as expected. 

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 (0003110) paul (administrator) - 23-Sep-10 11:12
 http://www.dbmail.org/mantis/view.php?id=860#c3110 
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I strongly disagree here. User wildcards are *not* more specific than
domain wildcards. They are meant to be used as a relay of last-resort, and
should be used sparingly.

Assigning @example.com to a user, means that user should get all email for
'his' domain, no matter what mailbox part was specified. 

As a user I would be very unhappy to learn that some other user who
(accidently) had a mailbox wildcard assigned to his account, started
getting email that was destined for my domain!

As a email hosting provider such a scenario would be cause for some
serious PR headaches. What a nightmare.

Finally, changing this kind of policy decision will create backward
compatibility issues for current installations. Again nightmares ensue.

Unless someone manages to convince me it is indeed necessary to do this,
and do it gracefully, this is one change that's not going in. 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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22-Sep-10 18:43  Disconnect     New Issue                                    
22-Sep-10 18:44  Disconnect     Note Added: 0003109                          
23-Sep-10 11:12  paul           Note Added: 0003110                          
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