I remember trying to send an “unsubscribe” email to google groups and it never worked through OpenSMTPd. I kept trying with no luck and thought it was something google did. When I tried postfix it worked.
This happened a few months ago so I don’t remember the details, but thought someone might want to check it From: Barbier, Jason [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 10:01 PM To: James MacMahon Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: are wildcard aliases possible? 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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<http://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]<mailto:[email protected]> > > To unsubscribe, send a mail to: > > [email protected]<mailto:misc%[email protected]> > > > > -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]<mailto:misc%[email protected]>
