Re: sendmail, user catchalls, and other MTA hate

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From: Scott Evans
Subject: Re: sendmail, user catchalls, and other MTA hate
Date: 09:17 on 26 May 2006
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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