Ben Hardy wrote:
> Thank you. I found these links and your advice very helpful.
>
> What I ended up doing was adding a director (to the end of the list)
>
> qmail_suffixes:
> driver = smartuser
> suffix = -*
> new_address = $local_part${sg {$local_part_suffix}{-([^-]*)\$}{}}@$domain
> new_director = system_aliases
>
> so any incoming message addressed to boing-1234 gets reduced to boing,
> for which I have a pipe alias which processes the boings :)
Be careful - you should rather say
${quote:\
$local_part${sg {$local_part_suffix}{-([^-]*)\$}{}}\
}@$domain
since $local_part_suffix can contain some characters which will make the
new resulting address invalid (e.g. a space). Just to be on the safe
side.
> existing aliases with hyphens (like mailman's aliases) are not affected
> (yay!)
>
> cheers
> b
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 01:59, Kirill Miazine wrote:
> > Actually the fact that I remember nothing about Exim 3 made me check
> > Exim 3 docs - the name of the option you will have to look for is
> > "suffix", not "local_part_suffix".
> >
> > http://www.no.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_21.html#SEC620
> >
> > Below is a configuration file for converting a qmail system to Exim 3,
> > written by Nico (where is he now?). You may find some hints there.
> >
> > http://mail.tmtowtdi.de/exim/exim3.qmail
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