Fat Bear Mail Services wrote:
Hi Noel,
The issue here is that these e-mail addresses are in use for QE purposes
such as testing new account signups for a given service. What happens
is that during a "signup test", some 10,000 e-mails will be sent out to
addresses matching the pattern such as:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the desired result that these are delivered to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Of course the names acme, mycompany, and acmedesign.com are actually
different)
are the "pat", "acme", "mycompany.com", and "acmedesign.com"
parts static, or do they vary? All discussions below assume
they are static.
It would be unreasonable to have a 1:1 mapping of names in the virtual
file because there are (1) so many of them;
Size is largely irrelevant. Hash tables scale very well to
hundreds of thousands entries, cdb to millions.
and, (2) because the
automated scripts that are sending out the e-mails might be testing
different numbers of recipients with different characters being allowed
in the "*" part above.
You're willing to throw away the "*" part above in your
regexp, why can't you throw it away in a pre-process awk?
I'll emphasize that this need is not about
sending spam or bulk e-mail. It is all about the need to do load and
performance testing.
So, under this specific need, I'm wondering what the right approach
would be to do the remapping... and wanting it to be as much "production
quality" as possible. The solution I wrote:
/^pat-acme([EMAIL PROTECTED])@mycompany.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in the regexp:/etc/postfix/virtual.regexp
/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mycompany\.com$/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is a better expression; does it really do what you want?
BTW, use pcre rather than regexp if your postfix supports it
(postconf -m to check). Pcre is faster, dramatically so on
some platforms.
does work, but is it as good as it can be under the circumstances?
E.g., will it fail to match recipients under conditions such as an
address formatted as:
"Any Old Text Here" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
virtual_alias_maps processes the envelope address, so there
won't ever be comments such as you see in a To: header.
If you need to fix the To: (or From:) header also, use
header_checks with IGNORE to remove it. It's possible to use
REWRITE to transform it, but that gets pretty tricky.
--
Noel Jones
