Re-reading your mail, this is the significant part :-
>
> I just pass everything to pop.pir.net off to cyrus and let it deal work
> out who is a valid user or not.
In my environment, I'm doing it the other way around. All I need is for the
local_parts test to be done after stripping any suffix....
Peter
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