Steve Jenkins:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> > Didn't I write that Postfix will attempt the unextended name first,
> > before trying the name without the text after $recipient_delimiter?
>
> I'm assuming you meant "extended name first" - otherwise I'm confused! :)
>
> Yes. I understand that with 'recipient_delimiter = -' Postfix will try
> to match user-extens...@example.com BEFORE attempting u...@example.com
> (in most tables).
This includes Postfix trying listname-request, owner-listname, and
so on, so these addresses will work as expected.
Besides this, there is some explicit logic to avoid splitting
mailer-daemon, owner-foo and foo-request.
> But I'm still confused about mouss' advice that I shouldn't use '-' as
> the delimiter if I'm using mailing list software. As long as
> 'user-extension' doesn't match any 'listname-command' combinations or
> match any other valid recipients that include a hyphen before the @,
> why can't I?
I don't know why Mouss believes that this is a problem.
Wietse
