Hi,
users have multiple aliases, implemented via an aliasfile-director.
mailbox: mailbox
first: mailbox
last: mailbox
first.last: mailbox
This works fine. We now want to implement multiple personal mailboxes,
allowing arbitrary suffixes. I have added:
suffix = "+*"
suffix_optional = yes
to the relevant directors (system_aliases, userforward and localuser).
Especially, my system_aliases director looks like this:
system_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
file = /etc/aliases
search_type = lsearch*
suffix = "-*"
suffix_optional = yes
Addressing to mailbox+foo works fine. However, the system_aliases
director obviously does not strip the suffix before trying the match,
thus first.last+foo isn't properly aliased to mailbox+foo as it is
intended to work.
What I would like to have is:
(1)
deliver mailbox+foo, first+foo, last+foo and first.last+foo to
mailbox+foo, allowing a user .forward file to sort out the message to
the intended folder.
(2)
if, however, mailbox+bar is explicitly aliased to external@???
in /etc/aliases, deliver mailbox+bar, first+bar, last+bar and
first.last+bar to external@???.
Thinking more closely will probably show that exim isn't able to
decide if behavior (1) or behavior (2) is intended. For example, having
mailbox: mailbox
mailbox+bar: external@???
first.last: mailbox
When I e-mail to first.last+foo, this should be aliased to mailbox+foo
by the third line, which is matched by the first line. When I e-mail
to first.last+bar, this should be aliased to mailbox+bar by the third
line, which in turn matches the second line. Hm. This will probably
work.
Now, how do I configure exim to properly handle the suffixes in the
system_aliases director?
Any hints will be appreciated.
Greetings
Marc
