Author: W B Hacker Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] Option to replace recipient?
Peter Velan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> if one of my users misspells the receivers address, I could add the
> correct recipient by means of "-Mar <message id> <correct_address>". The
> wrong recipient is still queued for delivery and has to be removed in a
> separate task. I could create a little script to combine this two
> actions to a single one, but: Isn't there a more elegant way?
>
> Peter
>
A method that is almost certainly impractical for an ISP, but
eminently doable for corporate / small user community use, is to
add the most commonly 'known and probable' mis-spellings and
variants as aliases.
Otherwise, the MTA itself should NOT ordinarily apply any
wildcard or generalized rules for such.
Silently delivering possibly-sensitive information to the wrong
recipient is potentially far worse than bouncing it, and one has
to wonder how effective 'require verify = recipients' could
remain as a block to zombie broadcasts if soem algorithmic
munging were in place.
