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Ask News.YC: What MTA?

2 points by brlewis 18y ago

I'm reading the exim4 documentation trying to figure out how to pipe to a script any mail with a recipient matching publish-* or draft-*. This is on Debian stable. Was it a mistake to switch with my OS's default MTA? Would Postfix or netqmail keep this conceptually simple task simple?

aaroneous 18y ago
QMail.
bayareaguy 18y ago
I'd suggest reading up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail to start.
- brlewis 18y ago
  AFAICT procmail only gets invoked when you have a valid recipient. How do I make addresses that match a regular expression be valid from the MTA's point of view? The script (procmail or not) would decide which ones to bounce.
  - bayareaguy 18y ago
    For that you'll probably need to hack the sendmail.cf file. I suspect it's probably easiest if you can use the "plussed user" feature - http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/O/oreilly/tcpip/sendmail/ch24_04.htm#SML2-CH-24-SECT-4-3 http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/O/oreilly/tcpip/sendmail/ch24_04...