[TriLUG] postfix addressing question

[Jon Carnes]

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 12:03, Chris Merrill wrote:
> ... All the aliases refer to a username that I have never given out.
> It's sorta the 'master' destination for my e-mail.
> Key to this scheme is that when I get spam, I look to see which address
> it came to and delete the alias.  Future messages to that address get
> bounced.
<snip>
> However, it seems to report the address _after_ it's been resolved against
> the alias file.  Even in the log file, it reports the resolved address,
> rather than the original address

Chris, I am not seeing that behavior at all in my mail from Postfix.  My
installs keep the original email name even if it is an alias for my real
account.

I'm using a fairly default install from Mandrake 9.1

Jon Carnes