On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, K. Shantanu wrote:
> What more informaton you want? I want,
> - mails to be delviered properly to users like shantanu@???
> - mails to be delviered properly to extension addresses like
> shantanu-extension@???
I think Nigel answered this in his message which, looking at the
timestamps, probably crossed with yours. He wrote:
What you do is split your routers up into 3 sets:-
* Remote routers (ie ones for external addresses). These do not
care about your local address quirks so you just ignore them.
* Local routers that should treat extended addresses as completely
different - for example your mail alias router would typically
treat fred+extension completely different to fred or
fred+diffextension. These are easy - you change nothing.
* Local routers which mostly ignore extended addresses, treating
them the same as the unextended address - ie fred is the same as
fred+something. These routers would normally be your
userforward and localuser routers.
To handle this last form you simply add:-
local_part_suffix = +*:-*
local_part_suffix_optional
to the appropriate routers.
And by "appropriate routers" he means the userforward and localuser
routers.
> - this file tag is ruining everything. What do I put there?
You do not want/need an extra router to provide this functionality. Get
rid of that extra router you got from somewhere on the net. Spelling it
out:
1. Throw away your configuration and replace it with Exim's default
configuration; or at least get rid of additions that you do not
understand, specifically this malconfigured router.
2. Add
local_part_suffix = +*:-*
local_part_suffix_optional
to BOTH the userforward and localuser routers which exist in the
default configuration.
> And do we have a comprehensive and easy to understand document like
> "Life with qmail" for exim?
I suspect that few people know both, which would be a necessary
precondition for writing such a document.
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