Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Tracy wrote: > >> I am looking at making a few wildcard aliases, and I don't seem to be >> able to find anything in the documentation that says whether or not this >> will work as expected. So: >> >> 1) Do aliases use the same StrIWildMatch function that is used in the >> SMTPUtils.cpp class? >> >> 2) Are alias names allowed to contain a full email address? For >> instance, can "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" be an alias for a local user? >> (Note that I mean in the sense of being listed in aliases.tab, not >> whether it can be done at all.) >> >> 3) Assuming that the answer to 2, above, is no, would a wildcard alias >> such as *.* work for grabbing any received email which contains a period >> in the user portion of the recipient name? > > Doesn't this answer to all you questions? > > http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html#aliases_tab
Actually, no, it doesn't... I did look at that before posting. It doesn't explicitly say whether or not the "alias" argument can contain a @domain.tld or not, and it doesn't say whether other wildcarding characters (such as ?) can be used. It does *imply* that it would work (by saying that foo*bog would be legit), but that still doesn't clarify whether the "alias" portion can contain a full email address (which would completely void the possibility of using "*.*", as that would match all possible email addresses). I started to look at the code, then got a headache and never got back to it... So - the question on the table: Will setting an alias of "*.*" potentially catch *all* mail (by potentially having a full email address set as an alias for a local user), or will it correctly catch "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" but *not* catch "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? I'm only asking because I remember having had problems with "unexpected results" when filtering in spammers.tab using wild cards to catch things with periods in them. And I suppose I should probably just set up a dummy domain somewhere and test it, but if someone actually has an answer it would save me a few days of work.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
