Re: [gentoo-user] Courier Sub-addressing

[james <garftd@verizon.net>]

On 5/21/20 4:14 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am attempting to set up sub-addressing on my  Courier  mail  server,  allowing
> senders to directly deliver messages to a particular folder in my mailbox.   For
> example, I want to provide my University with the address
> `ash-AcademicMatters@suugaku.co.uk` to force all their messages into the
> "AcademicMatters" subdirectory.
> 
> Unfortunately,  I  can't  find  any  official  Courier  documentation  regarding
> sub-addressing.  I have found [1], however I'm not sure it will apply  as  I  am
> using virtual mailboxes.
> 
> When attempting to  send  e-mail  to  myself  using  sub-addressing,  my  server
> complains that the address is not found in the virtual users  table,  suggesting
> that it is entirely unaware of the sub-addressing notation.
> 
> Has anyone here managed to get this working ? I believe it is sometimes referred
> to as "plus-addressing", however it seems that Courier uses a hyphen as  opposed
> to a plus symbol (+).
> 
>          Cheers,
>          Ashley.
> 
> [1] https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/courier-email-subaddressing/
> 

Hello Ashley,

Yes, but with mail-client/Thunderbird. The tricks (with thunderbird) are 
mostly related to how you set up your filters, and the order of the filters.

On thunderbird the 'message filters' under the three horizontal bars on 
the top right of the base screen, is the starting point. Then I have to 
click various selections, sometimes 2 or 3 times. It's tricky with 
thunderbird and filtering incoming mail, ymmv.

No clue on  a courier mail server. BUT, I'd be most interested in 
testing/verifying what you come up with, as thunderbird is a very 
bloated pig of an app. And I'm looking for a unified system where email, 
broweser-links, local edited files (vi/vim/etc) and browser saved files 
and links are all unified into one 'common-logical' viewer/storage 
renders the various way we can save data, whether local or net-based 
resources. I'd be most interested in *any* unifying  scheme, 
gentoo-centric.   30++ years of linux/bsd/linux has given me a very rich 
source of resources, docs and wonderful emails. But data-harvesting 
needs a modern approach.


/usr/portage/mail-* does not have many robust and secure options.  I've 
even thought about returning to a sendmail server, as a unifying start, 
but that's probably not a wise idea.

Do post your findings, as I'm sure others would appreciate a robust 
(gentoo) solution, particularly if the feature list supports cell phones 
(android and/or apple cell phones) and those text/emails.


hth,
James