plus addressing with postfix

Stefano Santoro stefano at santoro.org
Fri Mar 17 11:44:53 EST 2006


... and if you plan to deliver to subfolders DO make sure that the
subfolder names are all lowercase.

INBOX.junk not INBOX.Junk

Ciao
Stefano

On Fri, March 17, 2006 11:01 am, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
> Use LMTP.
> Make sure main.cf has "recipient_delimiter = +"
> You don't need special permissions to deliver to a user's INBOX, but if
> you want to deliver to a subfolder, the subfolder must have "anyone p".
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: info-cyrus-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:info-cyrus-
>> bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Kwok
>> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 6:21 AM
>> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>> Subject: plus addressing with postfix
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How can I make cyrus imap plus delivery work from postfix.
>> I have virtual domains.
>>
>> in my master.cf
>>
>> cyrus           unix    -       n       n       -       -       pipe
>>         user=cyrus argv=/usr/lib/cyrus/deliver -r ${sender} -m
>> ${extension}
>> ${recipient}
>>
>> I use autocreateinbox patch to create the folders.
>>
>> 1. I think one solution is giving anyone p right by default.
>>    Will there be any security problem by doing this to everyone's
> folder?
>> 2. I found it work if the deliver program is called with -a
> user at email.com
>>    user=cyrus argv=/usr/lib/cyrus/deliver -r ${sender}
>>         -m ${extension} -a ${recipient} ${recipient}
>>    However pipe do not remove the plus extension from the ${recipient}
>> macro
>>    Passing abc+spam at xyz.com to -a and recipient make it doesn't work.
>>
>> I have try LMTP however the result is the same.
>> And suggestions? Am I doing the right thing?
>>
>> Great Thanks
>> Steve Kwok
>>


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