[Mailman-Developers] VERP code

[Peter C. Norton]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:40:40AM -0700, Edmund Lau wrote:
> qmail has a general catch-all address.  It's defined by a .qmail-default
> file (or .qmail-ext-default).  For instance if I had a .qmail-blah-default
> in my home directory, any Email with prefix to edlau-blah- gets processed
> by it.  But note the trailing hyphen.  I can't have a .qmail-blah+default
> as qmail won't recognize it, unless there's some heavy, magical trickery.
> 
> Back to mailman, I can use a "+" as a delimiter, but there needs to be a
> "-" right before it.  Is there a regex that would get that?  So the new
> VERP_FORMAT would be '%(bounces)s-+%(mailbox)s=%(host)s'.  I would assume
> this is better than just matching the last "-" anyway as, like you said, a
> user can have that character in their address.
> 
> Ideas?
> -Ed

man qmail-users

It documents /var/qmail/users/assign.  You can define the seperator
for the user in this file.  It isn't system-wide, it just takes effect
for deliveries targeted at the user specified.

-Peter

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