Daniel L. Miller:
> On 4/3/2012 10:27 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Daniel L. Miller:
> >> and fax-access:
> >> mess...@inbound.efax.com REDIRECT theal...@amfes.com
> > As documented, REDIRECT affects all recipients. It is meant to yank
> > mail out of its normal path, and was originally implemented for
> > emergencies (that is also why the feature is not subject to canonical,
> > virtual alias, or BCC address mappings, and none of this is properly
> > documented).
> >
> > In other words, don't use REDIRECT for routine mail processing.
>
> Ok - I'm using the wrong tool for the job. So - please let me rephrase
> my question.
>
> What would be the proper way to redirect inbound mail originally
> destined for a valid user, to an alias which can be expanded/redirected
> through normal handling, based on the sender?
So you want to replace the recipient only some of the time,
but not all of the time. That is not built into Postfix.
Yesterday someone asked for size-dependent delivery paths. With
enough of such features, the mail system becomes really hard to
understand, like firewall rules.
Wietse
