On 5/21/20 4:14 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
Hello,
I am attempting to set up sub-addressing on my Courier mail server, allowing
senders to directly deliver messages to a particular folder in my mailbox. For
example, I want to provide my University with the address
`ash-academicmatt...@suugaku.co.uk` to force all their messages into the
"AcademicMatters" subdirectory.
Unfortunately, I can't find any official Courier documentation regarding
sub-addressing. I have found [1], however I'm not sure it will apply as I am
using virtual mailboxes.
When attempting to send e-mail to myself using sub-addressing, my server
complains that the address is not found in the virtual users table, suggesting
that it is entirely unaware of the sub-addressing notation.
Has anyone here managed to get this working ? I believe it is sometimes referred
to as "plus-addressing", however it seems that Courier uses a hyphen as opposed
to a plus symbol (+).
Cheers,
Ashley.
[1] https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/courier-email-subaddressing/
Hello Ashley,
Yes, but with mail-client/Thunderbird. The tricks (with thunderbird) are
mostly related to how you set up your filters, and the order of the filters.
On thunderbird the 'message filters' under the three horizontal bars on
the top right of the base screen, is the starting point. Then I have to
click various selections, sometimes 2 or 3 times. It's tricky with
thunderbird and filtering incoming mail, ymmv.
No clue on a courier mail server. BUT, I'd be most interested in
testing/verifying what you come up with, as thunderbird is a very
bloated pig of an app. And I'm looking for a unified system where email,
broweser-links, local edited files (vi/vim/etc) and browser saved files
and links are all unified into one 'common-logical' viewer/storage
renders the various way we can save data, whether local or net-based
resources. I'd be most interested in *any* unifying scheme,
gentoo-centric. 30++ years of linux/bsd/linux has given me a very rich
source of resources, docs and wonderful emails. But data-harvesting
needs a modern approach.
/usr/portage/mail-* does not have many robust and secure options. I've
even thought about returning to a sendmail server, as a unifying start,
but that's probably not a wise idea.
Do post your findings, as I'm sure others would appreciate a robust
(gentoo) solution, particularly if the feature list supports cell phones
(android and/or apple cell phones) and those text/emails.
hth,
James
