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de-hate. On my old Redhat 7.x box we did catchall address with a syntax like this in virtusertable: @antisleep.com gse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx gse On Fri, 26 May 2006, Zach White wrote: > So I'm rebuilding a machine that at various times over the years has run > qmail and courier. Both of those pieces of software have a really nice > feature where you can email user-<something>@domain, and if > user-<something> doesn't exist on the machine the mail will get delivered > to user. In fact, I'm pretty sure that qmail originated this feature, but > I'm too hateful right now to verify that. > > So in rebuilding this machine, I decide that rather than install a > different MTA, I'll go with sendmail, which comes with the machine. > Contrary to past experience, sendmail really isn't as hateful as I was > prepared for it to be. Except when it comes to making sure that my > 623,612 subscriptions that use zwhite-<listname> still work without > specifying each one in either aliases or virtusertable. > > Nothing in the documentation about how to do that. Nothing in the FAQ. > Nothing I can find using google. It doesn't help that google ignores the > + and - characters in searches, either. > > According to a friend who is a sendmail ninja, I'll have to change the > source. Good thing that + isn't used very often in code, isn't it? > > root:/usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail:35# grep -r '+' . | wc -l > 4336 > > HATE HATE HATE >
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