foo+bar@ addresses, procmail, and postfix

[Terry Lambert]

Dan Langille wrote:
> > But either way, you need to modify the MDA invocation by the MTA, on
> > local delivery.
> 
> Done.  And how I did that was in my original message.

By using procmail on all local mail.  8-(.

> > That's because mail.local doesn't take or pass on optional
> > arguments to programs invoked in .forward files.  It's an
> > MDA that doesn't support that.
> 
> But Postfix does.

Postfix is not a local delivery agent.

> I'd rather disturb the existing setup as little as possible.

Understood.  I thought perhaps the reason for this was that it
was being hosted for you, and that your "procmail everything"
was just a proof-of-concept.


> > > Any comments?  Ideas?  Improvements?
> >
> > Don't run procmail globally.  Replace your mail.local, if you
> > need to, but don't run procmail globally.
> 
> I'm the only user on this system.  I'd rather not replace mail.local.

Well you have, with procmail.  8-).  But if you're the only user,
then it doesn't matter.

What should probably be noted is that this will not work for
people whose email service is being hosted by someone else,
since hosting providers tend to frown on changes to global
mail configurations.

If you're not willing to replace mail.local as the local MDA,
then I guess you've got the best you are going to get for this.

-- Terry