[PLUG] Postfix mail receiving general

Rob Hudson rob at cogit8.org
Sun May 12 06:18:07 UTC 2002


At the end of my virtuals file, I have a catch-all like this, so
*@mydomain.com goes to me, if not otherwise sent to a real account.

At the end of your virtuals file, add something like:

@mydomain.com	alias [ or email address]

-Rob

On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 11:05, Mike Russell wrote:
> I have been reading all these right-ups and it dose not seam to be what i 
> am looking for.
> 
> my server is:
> mydomian.com
> 
> I want all mail from:
> anybody at mydomain.com
> to go to one user at mydomain.com, with out setting up a user for all the 
> other names. I developed a
> bad habt of using different user names for different venders and services, 
> i.i.e.. ebay at mydomain.com, msn at mydomain.com, ect..
> this was a attempt to track spam list leaks.. (who is leak my address).
> 
> the virtual domain file seams to only address if i was hosting a virtual 
> domain,
> and the Canonical mapping dose not sound like what i am looking for either.
> Am I missing something or just being stupid?
> 
> At 06:10 PM 5/10/02, you wrote:
> > >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Russell <miker at netsailer.com> writes:
> >
> >Mike> I was wondering if you can setup an alias to receive all mail with any
> >Mike> user name without setting up the real user on the system.
> >
> >Mike> i.e.. my virtual domain at aracnet. i can use anyname at mydomain.com and
> >Mike> it dumps it in my mail box.
> >
> >Mike> i tried using a (" *: "   username) in my aliases file but it failed.
> >
> >Postfix can do nearly anything.  See "Virtual Address Mapping"
> >under http://www.postfix.org/rewrite.html and
> >http://www.postfix.org/virtual.5.html for your specific query.
> >
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