Wildcard email addresses

[kurtm187]

Hi,

I want to set up a system so that every email address of a certain class gets sent to the same local user.

I'd prefer it so that the following works:

kurt-email1@mydomain.com => kurt
kurt-xyz@mydomain.com => kurt
etc.

Of course, I'd still like addresses outside of that class to bounce.

If it is easier, I can set it up so that all email coming to a particualr domain, say virt.mydomain.com should go to the one user.

I tried doing this by putting '@virt.mydomain.com kurt' in virtualusertable, but I kept getting errors about a loop.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Kurt

 

[blizz]

I'm guessing what you really want is a catch-all email account like @mydomain.com

You would have created a loop if in your virtual user table if you had:

@mydomain.com & kirt@mydomain.com

You can't have both in your virtual user table this is what creates the loop.



Blizz

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[Rhinokiller]

You don't need to use the virtusertable if you are only dealing with local mail. Sendmail will use the alias file to handle local mail by default.
I would add a simple entry such as
kurt-email1: kurt
kurt-xyz: kurt
kurt-abc: kurt

then run the newaliases command

Now all mail for the three aliases above will be delivered to the Kurt inbox.


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