[oclug] How to catch privacy liars with Qmail

Ian! D. Allen idallen at freenet.carleton.ca
Sat Mar 16 02:38:25 EST 2002


On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:36:36AM -0500, Dan Cardamore wrote:
> Qmail allows
> you to receive any mail destined for $userid@$domain, it also lets you
> recieve any email destined for $userid-$something@$domain.

And postfix allows userid+something at domain if you set:.

    recipient_delimiter = +

in main.cf

My experiences with sending email to my accounts on sites running
sendmail tells me that sendmail does this too:

    mail idallen+anything at site.running.sendmail

works too.

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