Hi,
almost every appendfile director contains the local part of the mail
address some where in the file name being generated. For the file
option, the manual says that a delivery error is generated if the
local part contains a forward slash. We are exclusively using maildirs
over here, so I can't verify this.
However, with other options like set in this director:
|systemuser_maildir:
|# This director matches local user mailboxes. This is needed at least
|# for local root mail which is delivered to admin. Local delivery is
|# not done if SYSTEM_MAILDIR doesn't exist in the user's home dir, so
|# users can control delivery.
| debug_print = "D: systemuser_maildir for $local_part@$domain."
| driver = localuser
| transport = system_maildir_delivery
| require_files = $local_part:+SYSTEM_MAILDIR
this magic doesn't apply and nasty error messages are generated when
an e-mail message comes in with a slash in the recipient's local part:
| Windows/admin/pp@???
| file existence defer in systemuser_maildir director:
| file name for existence test is not fully qualified:
| windows/admin/pp: retry timeout exceeded
To make messages to this non-existent address properly bounce, I'd
probably have to replace the forward slash in the file name with a
different character.
What character would be a good idea? It should be non-lethal in file
names, and it should be disallowed in local parts of e-mail addresses.
Is there such a character?
Or is there another way to solve this issue?
Any hints will be appreciated.
Greetings
Marc
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