[Exim] rewriting, redirecting, and the sendmail "+ hack"

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Author: Noah Meyerhans
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Subject: [Exim] rewriting, redirecting, and the sendmail "+ hack"
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Hi folks. I've got a site using sendmail, and I'm trying to duplicate
some weird rewriting and redirecting that it does in Exim 4.20.

Basically, the mail server in question is nothing but a relay. There
are no local mailboxes. Mail addressed too user@domain is redirected
based on a 1-to-1 mapping in a dbm file, basically just like
/etc/mail/aliases, with one exception: We pass the sendmail "+ hack"
through to the recipient of the redirected message.

So, assume the aliases file contains
foo: foo@???

mail to foo@domain will be redirected to foo@???, including
envelope recipient rewriting. The hard part is that foo+bar@domain will
be redirected to foo+bar@???, and the envelope recipient will
be rewritten to foo+bar@???. That's for any value of bar; we
don't know it in advance.

The sendmail.cf to make this work is evil, but it does work. I think
Exim can accomplish what I need, and probably be less evil that
sendmail, but I'm fairly inexperienced with Exim's rewriting
capabilities.

I can do it (I think... exim -brw indicates that it's doing the right
thing) using two dbm lookups, if I store the local-part and the domain
of the recipient in separate dbm files, like this:
N^([^!]+)\+(.*)@domain$\N   "${lookup{$1}dbm{/usr/local/exim/etc/csail.names.db} {$value}fail}+$2@${lookup{$1}dbm{/usr/local/exim/etc/csail.domains.db}{$value}fail}"    T


But I'd certainly like to be able to do it in a single dbm lookup.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
noah

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