On Tue, Aug 03, 2004, James Gregory wrote: > So, I got sick of messing around with procmail every time I signed up > for some email based service that didn't helpfully identify itself > with some sensible header. I think I have a partial solution. Well, if > you happen to own your own domain and use Courier and procmail then > it's a partial solution.
If you're using any SMTP server that allows extensions ([EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]), you can do a similar thing with your -whatever and +whatever extensions. Address extensions do have a lock-in effect though. If you use - (qmail's default), you have to get your next host to use - as well, or to do some re-writing for you. (I ended up configuring Postfix myself to do it, not everyone will have as obliging a hosting provider.) As a side-note, I started using a bunch of mary-* addresses so that I could 'disable' ones that ended up on too many spammers' lists. It hasn't been that successful in the end, mainly because it just means that *all* of my public mary-* addresses end up getting copies of the same pieces of spam. They are handy for doing what James is talking about though: sorting mail from (for example) a bunch of online retailers into different folders. (There's a procmail rule that works for lists, so you don't need it for lists.) -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
