OK, so I've become intrigued with recipient delimiters.
My users are currently stored in a mysql database, 'postfix'. The
table format is as postfixadmin sets it up, so in the username is
the user email address u...@example.com
Before I started tinkering, email to u...@example.com worked. Email
to user+...@example.com failed with "unknown recipient", all well and good.
It looks like even with recipient_delimiter = + set, mail is still
bounced for the same reason. I theorize that recipient_delimiter is
actually checked at the end of the address such that with it enabled
what I really have is u...@example.com+foo working (which, of course,
won't work).
Does this mean that I can't really use recipient_delimiter with my
users defined as u...@example.com? If so, I presume I need to munge
up (even more) my SQL statement so that instead of checking for
username='%s' I'm going to need to strip %s apart into its
constituent components and then reassemble it, so that
user+...@example.com, user+...@example.com works? Or would I just
use '%d', which looks like it might be the left side of the email
address (tho I'd still have to make the SQL match that).
The end result that would be cool would be that if foo was defined as
a folder, mail would get delivered there, and if not mail would be
delivered to the default inbox.
I can currently (with my existing sql) create a second user
user+...@example.com and get mail to deliver to inbox/foo , but that
means that a) I have to maintain a u...@example.com AND a
user+...@example.com, and additionally if I want to add additional
extensions I have to create additional accounts, which seems tiresome.
Thanks for any guidance!
rick
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