[OT] sendmail virtusertable question

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> *+something at domain.name         aa-spamtrap
> *something at domain.name          aa-spamtrap
>
> so that any of these bogus names get scanned and delivered to a local
> account where I deal with them.  Each time I run a test address through
> sendmail -bt I still end up with the "user unknown" status.

Sendmail does not support wildcards like that.

In exim its dead simple, that one takes regexp, but sendmail doesnt.

> I do not want a catchall address such as *@domain.name, just a catchall for
> usernames ending in a certain string *string at domain.name
>
> Has anyone on the list any suggestions and/or answers to this problem?

Yes, define the ones you get in, we have loads of them:

dermalptch1rk at quicknet.nl       550 dermalptch1 scam sender - contact abuse at multikabel.nl for more information
dermalptch1rl at quicknet.nl       550 dermalptch1 scam sender - contact abuse at multikabel.nl for more information
dermalptch1rm at quicknet.nl       550 dermalptch1 scam sender - contact abuse at multikabel.nl for more information
dermalptch1rn at quicknet.nl       550 dermalptch1 scam sender - contact abuse at multikabel.nl for more information
dermalptch1ro at quicknet.nl       550 dermalptch1 scam sender - contact abuse at multikabel.nl for more information
dermalptch1rp at quicknet.nl       550 dermalptch1 scam sender - contact abuse at multikabel.nl for more information
dermalptch1rq at quicknet.nl       550 dermalptch1 scam sender - contact abuse at multikabel.nl for more information

In exim its just one line...

There is a way to enable some regexp in sendmail but its not standard and
there are also problems reported using them like that.

Bye,
Raymond