Might not be what you want, but this two part guide includes a simple catchall inbox in part two: https://prefetch.eu/blog/2020/email-server/ and https://prefetch.eu/blog/2020/email-server-extras/
It also does use a @ in the aliases file. Does this only work with virtual users? Josey On 4/11/22, Beau Ford <bf...@0x.co> wrote: > > > Thomas, > > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, Thomas Bohl wrote: > >> Instead of being cranky you should have posted your "very simple, very >> readable smtpd.conf file". > > > I'm not sure that is on-topic since my config file has no virtusertable, > no reference to virtuals, etc. > > So you'd be rewriting a new config for me which seems like a lot to ask. > > >>> This is what a catchall email address looks like and this is a very >>> simple >>> and reasonable to expect this to function. >> >> An alias file has never accepted an @. It is therefore not at all >> reasonable >> to expect it to function. IIRC even with Postfix you will need a virtual >> map. > > > The aliases file (and functionality) is very simple and straightforward. > > I am not sure what to do with my aliases if I establish a virtusertable > ... do I run them in parallel ? > > Is virtuser functionality a superset of alias functionality ? > > I hear you (and others) saying that the aliases file has never allowed > wildcards like this but ... it's not obvious why it wouldn't. In fact, it > seems perfectly natural to allow wildcards in it. > > Or, to put it another way: > > I have a perfectly functional config with no virtual users and no > virtusertable ... seems like a lot of monkeying around just to add a > single catch-all rule and never use these structures for anything else ... > > > Thanks. > >
