Re: Design Check

2021-10-31 Thread Felix Ingram
On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 08:29, Felix Ingram wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 00:15, wrote: > >> [...] > > > I think my "creating users" was me wanting to make sure that when >> > postfix >> > passes an email for "bar...@mydomain.com" to Dovecot, then Dovecot >> will >> > store it and wait for >>

Re: Design Check

2021-10-28 Thread Felix Ingram
On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 00:15, wrote: > > I think your approach would work, however, if I set > > up aliases similar to: > > > > @barbaz.mydomain.com -> bar...@mydomain.com. > > > > I believe I can do that in postfix with some regex magic. > > Yes, that would work perfectly without any regex. >

Re: Design Check

2021-10-28 Thread Felix Ingram
On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 07:40, Bernardo Reino wrote: > > > [...] > > Further to the responses you have received already, I'd like to note that > if you > want to receive mail at {alias}@{user}.mydomain.com then, at the time of > *sending* the e-mail there needs to be an MX record for user, as

Re: Design Check

2021-10-28 Thread Bernardo Reino
On Wed, 27 Oct 2021, Felix Ingram wrote: [...] People would be able to send email to addresses that match the following format: us...@foobar.mydomain.com us...@foobar.mydomain.com us...@barbaz.mydomain.com us...@barbaz.mydomain.com [...] I will be creating a web interface for users to

Re: Design Check

2021-10-27 Thread dovecot
On 10-27-2021 11:10 pm, justina colmena ~biz wrote: Interesting. Have you looked at this? https://serverfault.com/questions/133190/host-wildcard-subdomains-using-postfix That makes sense and would work, setting domains and user addresses with perl regex expressions.

Re: Design Check

2021-10-27 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Interesting. Have you looked at this? https://serverfault.com/questions/133190/host-wildcard-subdomains-using-postfix [People have too much "flair" and rep points and I can't participate in those stackexchange discussions or ask or answer like I used to.] On October 27, 2021 3:15:01 PM AKDT,

Re: Design Check

2021-10-27 Thread dovecot
I think your approach would work, however, if I set up aliases similar to: @barbaz.mydomain.com -> bar...@mydomain.com. I believe I can do that in postfix with some regex magic. Yes, that would work perfectly without any regex. You just point the catchall alias to the "user".

Re: Design Check

2021-10-27 Thread Felix Ingram
On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 at 18:27, wrote: > > On 10-27-2021 12:06 pm, Felix Ingram wrote: > > > > us...@foobar.mydomain.com > > us...@foobar.mydomain.com > > us...@barbaz.mydomain.com > > us...@barbaz.mydomain.com > > > > I would like all emails to the "foobar" subdomain to end up in their > > own

Re: Design Check

2021-10-27 Thread dovecot
On 10-27-2021 12:06 pm, Felix Ingram wrote: us...@foobar.mydomain.com us...@foobar.mydomain.com us...@barbaz.mydomain.com us...@barbaz.mydomain.com I would like all emails to the "foobar" subdomain to end up in their own mailbox and all emails to the "barbaz" subdomain to go to their own

Design Check

2021-10-27 Thread Felix Ingram
Hello all, I'm building a mail system and would like to check whether my design is feasible. I'm fairly certain that it is but I think I don't have the right words and concepts lined up properly in my head. The end system will provide temporary/disposable email addresses that can be accessed by