On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Tracy wrote:

> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Tracy wrote:
> > 
> >> I am looking at making a few wildcard aliases, and I don't seem to be 
> >> able to find anything in the documentation that says whether or not this 
> >> will work as expected. So:
> >>
> >> 1) Do aliases use the same StrIWildMatch function that is used in the 
> >> SMTPUtils.cpp class?
> >>
> >> 2) Are alias names allowed to contain a full email address? For 
> >> instance, can "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" be an alias for a local user? 
> >> (Note that I mean in the sense of being listed in aliases.tab, not 
> >> whether it can be done at all.)
> >>
> >> 3) Assuming that the answer to 2, above, is no, would a wildcard alias 
> >> such as *.* work for grabbing any received email which contains a period 
> >> in the user portion of the recipient name?
> > 
> > Doesn't this answer to all you questions?
> > 
> > http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html#aliases_tab
> 
> Actually, no, it doesn't... I did look at that before posting. It 
> doesn't explicitly say whether or not the "alias" argument can contain a 
> @domain.tld or not, and it doesn't say whether other wildcarding 
> characters (such as ?) can be used. It does *imply* that it would work 
> (by saying that foo*bog would be legit), but that still doesn't clarify 
> whether the "alias" portion can contain a full email address (which 
> would completely void the possibility of using "*.*", as that would 
> match all possible email addresses).

"alias" can be a wildcard *name*. It cannot contain a domain, for which 
you have the "domain" field. The "realaccount" filed can be a full email 
address, not "alias".



- Davide


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