[TriLUG] wildcards in /etc/aliases

[David McDowell]

can you have more than 1 delimiter field?  I setup + so far... and as
you mentioned, i have run across a few sites that don't allow + in the
email address field... so ya, thanks.  :)

On 7/26/06, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> > Woo-hoo to self-replying..  Anyway, if anyone else wishes to perform
> > such silliness, here's what I came up with to accomplish my goal.
> >
> > There aren't really wildcards in /etc/aliases (that I could find), but
> > according to the aliases manpage: "...When  alias database search fails,
> > and the recipient localpart contains the optional recipient delimiter
> > (e.g., user+foo), the search is repeated for the unextended address
> > (e.g., user)."
> >
> > So, I changed my scheme to "unsub+nnnn" and aliased "unsub", with
> > positive results.
>
> Note, btw, that dash "-" is the default recipient delimiter for qmail
> and on postfix it is configurable.  Personally, I prefer using - as
> the recipient delimiter because a lot of sites on the net disallow
> pluses "+" in their e-mail input fields but they all allow dashes.
>
> Cheers,
> Tanner
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