On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:13, azeem ahmad wrote: > > > >If you are using sendmail, you should be able to used > >'plussed' addresses. The local (username) part of the > >address to the left of the plus is the base. Sendmail > >will look for .forward files in that user's home directory > >in the form of .forward+xxxx where xxxx is the part after > >the plus. If it doesn't find a match, it looks again > >for a standard .forward and then performs a normal delivery. > >That means you should be able to use an address like > >faxmail+phone-number@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and have faxmail > >alias parse out an arbitrary phone number. I think > >procmail already gets the plused part as an argument > >during delivery so if you run the command out of .procmailrc > >you'd already have it - otherwise it can be difficult > >to interpret mail headers since you can't tell if a > >certain delivery is for a To:, or CC: or something not > >even in the headers. > > > > i really couldnt get anything out of it. > can u plz explain it in simple "Simple" and "sendmail" don't really go together and procmail is even harder to explain. Basically if you create a user named faxmail and create a .procmailrc file in his home directory to process his incoming mail, adding somthing like ARG=$1 at the top of the file will store whatever was between the + and the @ in the address in the variable ARG which you can test and substitute in subsequent commands. I don't recommend using this in production without at least a basic understanding of procmail (the sendmail side will just work with the defaults). Procmail syntax isn't pretty. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
