"Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dan Harkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Okay, I ended up going with an environment variable called
>> $USERNAME_EXTENSION. I didn't like $USER_EXTENSION because it sounds like
>> it describes the generic concept of an extension (to a software package) by
>> a user. With $USERNAME_EXTENSION, it's much more obvious what it's for.
>> Here's my ChangeLog entry:
>> * Changed the new "plussed_user" option to mts.conf's
>> "masquerade:" to "username_extension" after getting feedback from
>> qmail users, who use '-' as a separator rather than '+'. Removed
>> checking of $USERPLUS variable. Now check $USERNAME_EXTENSION,
>> which needs to include the appropriate separator for your MTA
>> ('-', '+', or whatever) as its first character.
>BTW, while testing $USERNAME_EXTENSION just now I had an unexpected
>failure. I tried to 'inc' my mail but it wasn't working because it was
>looking for /var/spool/mail/dan$USERNAME_EXTENSION.
>Did you intend this, Neil? It's a consequence of appending the environment
>variable while in getuserinfo(), which controls nmh's global idea of what
>the username is.
No, I didn't intend that, although I'm not really surprised.
Using '+detail' in an address is mainly useful if you use 'slocal' or
'procmail' to sort the mail into folders based on the '+detail'. In
that case inc is not involved.
>I know with sendmail this is undesirable, because the "plussed user" email
>addresses definitely correspond to a single mailbox. I'm still a little
>fuzzy on qmail's "user-extensions", though. Do they (always? usually?)
>correspond to a single maildrop?
>If so, I should probably reimplement $USERNAME_EXTENSION to only get tacked
>onto the account name in the "From:" line that post generates.
Probably a good move anyway.
>qmail users, please let me know what you think.
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