On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:05 +0000, Jonathan Gilpin wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 10:30 +0000, Jonathan Gilpin wrote: > >>> Perhaps instead of redirecting to 'postmaster' you could redirect to an > >>> address such as 'catchall-$original_local_part', and then ensure that > >>> such recipients are all delivered into the same mailbox by the routers? > >> > >> any idea how to write this in exim language? Basically the theory sounds > >> good! > > > > Mostly it'd be in MySQL, surely? > > > > Change your MYSQL_Q_ALIASES query not to change the localpart to > > postmaster@ for unknown localparts, and then change the MYSQL_Q_BOXNAME > > query so that it _does_ do that transformation. > > > > Then the built-in duplicate elimination shouldn't trigger (because the > > addresses are still different), but the router should actually end up > > dumping all copies of the message into the same mailbox. > > I've fine with the SQL query... but I'm not sure how to rewrite the > transport. What would the > query need to return for example if the address is to be kept the same?
I wouldn't change the transport at all. Currently, you have MYSQL_Q_ALIASES turning the incoming email address [email protected] into [email protected], and then later you have MYSQL_Q_BOXNAME turning that [email protected] into a Maildir directory name. If you stop MYSQL_Q_ALIASES from turning the address into postmaster@, then you just want your MYSQL_Q_BOXNAME query to resolve '[email protected]' into the correct Maildir directory for the postmaster/catchall mailbox. Why change the transport? -- dwmw2 -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
