Charles Sprickman a écrit : > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Simon Waters wrote: > >> On Monday 27 July 2009 11:13:34 Martijn de Munnik wrote: >>> Losing catchall seems to be the best solution but some of my customers >>> want to create an emailaddress for every website the register on. >>> >>> m...@desjors.nl >>> pay...@desjors.nl >>> deb...@desjors.nl >> >> They could use the "recipient_delimiter" for this. >> >> $postconf -n | grep recipient_delimiter >> recipient_delimiter = + >> >> simon+pay...@example.com >> simon+...@example.com > > How does that interact with virtual domains stored in a db?
if simon+pay...@example.com is found in the db, it is used. otherwise, si...@example.com is used. > Any > weirdness with that and say, Dovecot's LDA? dovecot is '+' friendly. by default, it will try to deliver to folder .paypal (.msn). if that folder doesn't exist, it will deliver to Inbox. > I'd love to add this > capability when I migrate us to Postfix. > > We had a guy with a domain that's very similar to "ebay.com". Some ebay > phisher decided to use "serv...@domainlikeebay.com" as the return > address. If the customer did not have a catchall, we would not have had > to deliver nearly 100K bounces to him... His reason for a catchall was > that he didn't want to make 200 aliases that matched all the addresses > he'd given out. > I used to have a catchall in one of my domain, to help my penpals reach me even if they mistype. even if I could block most junk, I removed the catchall (actually, even with mistyping, only very very few adresses were used by my penpals).
