On Thu, 18 Sep 2025, [email protected] wrote:
(I use email.TAG@domain, not sure whether the . and + are magic in this
case).
The ".*" in your "alt-addresses" setting is not for the "." in "email.TAG",
it's a(n extended) regular expression.
In a regular expression, "." matches any single character, and "*" means
"zero or more instances of the previous item." (If you're used to
shell-style globs, just remember to put ".*" anyplace that you would
ordinarily put just plain "*" and it will probably do what you want.)
TL;DR: if you set "alt-addresses=alice.*@example.com", it will match
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], etc.
In that case alice+*@example.com will probably match
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
but not
[email protected]
If it is a modern regular expression implementation,
where '+' means one or more, alice+*@example.com might match
[email protected] and [email protected]
but not
[email protected]
!
[ alice\+.*@example.com might be the pattern you need in that case. ]
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
[email protected]
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