spam handling rules with +detail email addresses?

[Denis Beauchemin]

Ken Anderson wrote:

> How does MailScanner/SA handle incoming email addressed to
> user+detail at domain.com in rules?
>
> Sendmail will strip everything after/including the + sign, and deliver
> to the 'user', but rules in MailScanner for both user+detail at domain.com
> AND user at domain.com seem to be bypassed when using this syntax in an
> email.
>
> I've only tested with rules/spam.actions.rules like this:
>
> To:     user+detail at domain.com    store notify

Could it be that your address is interpreted as a regular expression (I
didn't check)?  If so try:
user\+detail at domain.com

> To:     user at domain.com store notify
>
> Both are bypassed and mail gets the default action applied to it if it's
> addressed to user+detail at domain.com
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Anderson
> Pacific.Net
>