Cool thanks, I think I'll try the user+spam@ and deny all of those and see what happens..
-----Original Message----- From: Jamie Wilkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 16 November 2001 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Sendmail /etc/mail/access file This one time, at band camp, Silcock, Stephen wrote: >I saw an idea once on another list from a guy who was lucky/motivated enough >to have his own domain and mail server. > >What he had set up was his mail server would accept mail for ><anything>@hisdomain.net and put it all in his mailbox. So what he would do >would be anywhere he had to submit an email addres he would use a different >but identifying one for each form/messaging service/porn site/mailing >list/whatever. e.g. for icq it would [EMAIL PROTECTED], for nytimes it >would [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can do that just as easily with current MTAs, you don't need your own domain, but using the - or + characters in your email address, viz: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postfix and Exim (and I assume sendmail too) know that the local-part of the address comes before the - or +, so these get delivered to me, and then procmail can deal with the filtering into separate mailboxes and so on. ... and THEN, for people who use lbdb for recipient lists, you don't go conflicting with public lists; i.e. if you use lbdb and type slug^T, you will notice some people on this list who use "slug@domain" as their subscribed address, which becomes annoying... "user+slug@domain" doesn't interfere with your lbdb goodness ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg Marge, you're my wife and I love you very much. But you're living in a world of makebelieve. With flowers and bells and leprechauns. And magic frogs with funny little hats... -- Homer Simpson, Blood Feud -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
