Yeah qmail uses - for tagging for whatever reason. The rest of the internet uses +.
Sent from a mobile device. On Dec 24, 2014 9:42 AM, "James MacMahon" <[email protected]> wrote: > Right, I tag sites for the same reason :) > > I just tried your recommendation with OpenSMTPD: > > $ telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 janssen.my.domain ESMTP OpenSMTPD > helo localhost > 250 janssen.my.domain Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you > mail from: <jwm+test@localhost> > 250 2.0.0: Ok > rcpt to: <jwm+testmail@localhost> > 250 2.1.5 Destination address valid: Recipient ok > > Seems to work here, but not with qmail: > > failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ > > So: as a temporary solution, I can use my script to populate > /etc/mail/aliases > and switch to giving out jwm+* addresses from now on. > > Thanks, > James > > On 24 Dec 2014, Barbier, Jason wrote: > > I don't think that is even planned but change that - to a + and you trip > > over the SMTP tagging feature which does work as you are describing. I > use > > jabarb+[site]@ to tag sites and see if they resell my email. > > > > Sent from a mobile device. > > On Dec 24, 2014 7:00 AM, "James MacMahon" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Would it be possible to have an entry in /etc/mail/aliases like: > > > > > > jwm-*: jwm > > > > > > I use qmail currently which supports this, but am looking at OpenSMTPD > as a > > > replacement. The problem is that I have used on the order of 100 > addresses > > > of the form jwm-*@operand.ca so that unique emails are used and this > is > > > gating > > > my change. To switch, I could use a script that will extract all unique > > > jwm-* > > > entries and populate /etc/mail/aliases but this means that I can't > > > arbitrarily > > > give out new unique addresses on demand. > > > > > > Is this feature in the works? > > > > > > Regards, > > > James > > > > > > > > > -- > > > You received this mail because you are subscribed to > [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected] > > > > > > > > -- > You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected] > >
