On 6/20/05, Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is somewhat annoying to patch qmail to get some features to work, > but there is a very helpful guide that makes it pretty easy: > http://www.qmailrocks.org/
"Founded in June of 2003" Oh well. Something like that would have been *very* nice back when I used qmail. > Qmail and Postfix are both great MTA's, so as many others have > mentioned, you can't go wrong with either. One thing I like about > qmail is the "dash alias" feature. If your email address is > [EMAIL PROTECTED], qmail gives you a wildcard alias of [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, > when I go to Amazon and buy something, I sign up with > [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. Makes it *really* easy to see where your > spam is coming from. Anyone know if this is easy to do with Postfix? Yes, that was one of the things I used a lot with qmail so it was a requirement for any MTA (mail transfer agent) I was going to switch too. Here is the relevant section of my postfix main.cf file. (note that by default postfix uses + which was the standard long before qmail decided to use -) # ADDRESS EXTENSIONS (e.g., user+foo) # # The recipient_delimiter parameter specifies the separator between # user names and address extensions (user+foo). See canonical(5), # local(8), relocated(5) and virtual(5) for the effects this has on # aliases, canonical, virtual, relocated and .forward file lookups. # Basically, the software tries user+foo and .forward+foo before # trying user and .forward. # recipient_delimiter = - Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=8127171 (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
