Re: Qmail - any alternatives? (Was: Status of qmail?)
I guess I should have been more specific. Does anything besides Qmail
or Sendmail support this? There's no way I'm going to run Sendmail...
I'd consider Exim or Zmailer or maybe even Smail or something else...?
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 02:53:56PM -0400, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
> And thus spake Jeff Noxon, on Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 01:42:48PM -0500:
> > I currently run qmail, and due to its licensing problems I'd rather not
> > run it. But is there another MTA that supports multiple user aliases
> > similar to the way qmail does? I find it tremendously useful to be able
> > to have multiple jeff-xyz addresses for mailing list subscriptions and
> > so on.
>
> sendmail supports this; this is the feature most people call 'plussed
> users'.
>
> user+anything defaults to going to user's mailbox.
>
> Depending on your sendmail configuration, there are many ways to use
> this. Usually if you create a file .forward+whatever, mail to the
> address user+whatever gets delivered using that .forward file. If you
> are invoking procmail as a mailer from sendmail rather than from a
> .forward, the +<foo> makes sendmail pass in foo as an extra argument
> to procmail, usually available in $1.
>
> You can also put user+foo in /etc/aliases, which overrides the definition
> of where mail to just plain user goes if the +foo is there.
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