sendmail strips +details from address
Adam Williams
adam at morrison-ind.com
Mon Sep 23 08:40:44 EDT 2002
>first let me say: in the basic configuration, that means
>on a redhat box with cyrus deliver and sendmail 8.11.6
>everything runs fine.
>An email to an address like username+sub at ourdomain.com
>reaches the folder sub of user username as expected.
>But since i've setup trendmicro interscan with sendmail
>in sandwich form, the +detail information got lost.
>All normal emailaddresses get the virusscanned email properly.
>Only a mail to username+sub at ourdomain.com drops into the
>Inbox folder
>I think the problem is that any email has to pass sendmail
>twice. This is part of the sandwich setup and i can see
>this in the logfile.
>Any suggestion how to tell sendmail not to strip +details?
You need to define the "preserve plus detail" feature in your m4 file
and regenerate sendmail.cf
See ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/Cyrus.pdf for an example.
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