[PLUG] Re: sendmail virtusertable wildcard question

[Matt Alexander]

keith morse wrote:
> Sandy Herring wrote:
>> I'm getting ready to handle my own MX. On my server I'm running sendmail
>> 8.13.1. I need to be able to receive mail to sandy_<foo>@herring.org for
>> any value for <foo> (e.g. sandy_foo at herring.org, sandy_bar at herring.org,
>> etc. should be "Sender ok") and have it delivered to user `sandy'. But I
>> don't want to allow dictionary attacks (e.g. red at herring.org should be
>> "User unknown"). I've got over 100 addresses of the form sandy_<foo> for
>> which receipt needs to happen. Any time I've had to supply an address to
>> a web vendor, I've used sandy_vendorDomain at herring.org so that I can
>> track address misuse.
>>
>
>
> It's been awhile since I've done Sendmail, but...
>
> unless you need to support virtual domains or unless you're determined 
> to do this via virtual tables, I'd accomplish this with aliases


Is it too late to talk you into using Postfix?