plus addressing issues (puremessage followup question)

[Paul Schiro]

Andrew,

No dice.  Didn't break anything, but didn't fix the issue either.

Good suggestions though, thanks!  I guess we'll just have to continue
handling quarantine manually....

--
Paul Schiro
Sr. Systems Engineer
American Select
<paul at amersel.com>
720-280-7023

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <andrew.caird at fccc.edu>
To: "Paul Schiro" <paul at amersel.com>; "cyrus info"
<info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: plus addressing issues (puremessage followup question)


> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 tallison at tacocat.net wrote:
>
> > >
> > > So does anyone in the group have any suggestions for completely
> > > disabling plus address handling in the cyrusv2 mailer, or anything
> > > else that might alleviate my puremessage quarantine release woes?  I
> > > do _not_ need user+mailbox at domain.com functionality, or
> > > user+shared at domain.com or any of that to work.  We don't use that
> > > stuff at all and never plan to.  I just would like sendmail to be able
> > > to handle plus addresses as though it was using a typical delivery
> > > agent.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Paul Schiro
> > > Sr. Systems Engineer
> > > American Select
> > > <paul at amersel.com>
> > > 720-280-7023
> > >
> >
> > Probably not an answer at all, but...
> >
> > if you were using postfix instead of sendmail I would be able to tell
> > you that you can disable the delimiter '+' in the configuration files of
> > the postfix application.
> >
> > Since you are not using postfix, I can only suggest that you might look
> > at disabling the delimiter in the sendmail application.  That will force
> > the address username+foo at domain.tld to be rejected rather than processed
> > to username at domain.tld.
>
> Paul,
>   I think you want to look at turning off "preserve_local_plus_detail" in
> your sendmail configuration.  See:
>   http://www.sendmail.org/m4/features.html#preserve_local_plus_detail
> for details.  I would strongly recommend testing this before using it in
> production, since I'm not sure what else turning this off will do.
>   A line like:
> define(`_PRESERVE_LOCAL_PLUS_DETAIL_', 0)
> after the line that defines cyrus2 as your local mailer in your mc file
> certainly seems to take out plussed-user support.
>   Hope this helps, but if it eats all of your email and causes your server
> to disapparate, my employer and I are not liable. :)
> --
> Andrew Caird
>