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We're exploring the use of "plus addressing" in our MTA (Exim), which delivers "user+topic at domain.com" to a user's "topic" folder. However, the case-sensitive nature of our ext3 filesystem means that a message destined to "topic" won't deliver to a user's "Topic" folder. For example, if a user creates a "Topic"

...how to do this. Is there a way to do that using deliver? Could there be? Relevant portions of the exim configuration follow. (And, p.s., am I using the new -a and -m options correctly? Are they used for anything yet?) Jay Levitt ## exim.conf ...begin routers ORIG_FOLDER = ${substr_1:$local_part_suffix} FOLDER_MAP = /etc/exim/folder-map.$local_part MAPPED_FOLDER = ${lookup{ORIG_FOLDER}lsearch{FOLDER_MAP}{$value}{ORIG_FOLDER}} # Mailboxes whose localparts are folders foldered_mailboxes: driver = accept local_part_suffix = +* : -* local_part_suffix_optional local_parts = +foldered_ma...

I guess Dovecot has an LDA called deliver. What is it and how do I use it? Or is it ready to be used. can't find any docs on it. -- Marc Perkel - marc at perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

...hould handle that parameter and leave the separator handling to the MTA. The MTA has to handle it anyway." it looks likes it's possible ... with appropriate changes in exim to my router: dovecot_localuser: driver = accept domains = +local_domains local_part_suffix = +* local_part_suffix_optional transport = dovecot_lda and transport: dovecot_lda: driver = pipe command = /.../deliver \ -c /.../dovecot-deliver.conf \ -d $local_part@$domain message_prefix = "&quo...

...exim.conf in my exim.conf, i've set up to use dovecot's LDA: ... begin routers ... dovecot_localuser: debug_print = "EXIM-DEBUG [R:dovecot_localuser] for $local_part@$domain" driver = accept domains = +local_domains local_part_suffix = +* local_part_suffix_optional transport = dovecot_lda ... begin transports ... dovecot_lda: debug_print = "EXIM-DEBUG [T:dovecot_lda] for $local_part@$domain" driver = pipe command = /usr/local/dovecot...

...ode = 0660 group = mail } } # ... (other auth config directives here) } And the relevent parts of my exim4.conf are as follows: # in router section: local_user: debug_print = "R: local_user for $local_part@$domain" driver = accept domains = +local_domains check_local_user local_part_suffix = +* local_part_suffix_optional local_parts = ! root transport = dovecot_deliver_user # in transport section: dovecot_deliver_user: debug_print = "T: pipe for $local_part@$domain" driver = pipe command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d $local_part message_prefix = message_suffix = l...