I do the same kind of thing; I have:
<mh-*> = mh.other
so I can (to use your example) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". All the mail
goes to my "mh.other" account, but I can see where it came from.
The key here, however, is that the destination account can't match the
pattern of the router trap; in other words, I couldn't have used
"mh-other" as the target account, because it would loop over and over
again. However, using the "." solved the problem for me; you could use
your same idea, but change it to:
<*-SPAM> = SPAM
and it would work provided you always used the hyphen.
At 12:53 PM -0700 10/3/01, Paul Galati wrote:
>I just had a kick in the head and had a revelation, it may be old to
>some but I am excited about this feature that can now be exploited. Any I
>am
>having a problem initially, and maybe there is some syntax I can do to get
>this to work.
>
>Let's say I download some software and they want an email address but you
>are
>not sure where this email address will end up. I have discovered a way to
>track this efficiently.
>
><*SPAM> = SPAM
>
>I have a local account named SPAM. Now when I go to Iomega to download
>their
>software, I can give them an address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on
>for other sites. The router will route all mail that contains SPAM to the
>local account. The RFC headers of the email do indicate the original
>recipient so it can be traced to where that address went to. Pretty neat,
>but
>hear is the problem.....
>
>The router loops over and over and fails that the internal hop count is too
>big. To me it looks like because the word SPAM is the local name too. I
>would like to keep the account name because I have more accounts I would
>like
>to do this to but cannot change the account name, for example
>
><PGa*> = PGalati
>
>Sometimes when I give people my email address, they end up with PGaloty or
>any
>variety of possibilities. The above entry tries to help but fails with the
>loop problem. Now SIMS is actually used as a publically seen mail server
>that
>auto delivers mail to another mail server that is on a private IP segment.
>So
>I have to correct the above router to say:
>
><PGa*> = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>This does work, but now I cannot get mail to be saved in a local pop
>account
>because of the router entry. I have a local account called PGalati that
>is to
>store in mailbox, but this does not happen.
>
>Confused? I hope not. In essence I want to have mail stored in a local
>account, because it is already being forwarded by the Mirror to List
>option.
>But the name needs to be close.
>
>Any assistance would be super.
>
>On Digest, please CC me.
>
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>Jack Rouse Associates
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