Re: [MLUG] flexible e-mail addresses

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I much prefer allowing users to create secure email accounts where they 
essentially generate an account with a random number on it. 
EMAIL:PROTECTED which forwards incoming mail to the users regular 
email account. With something like Courier MTA that sort of thing is 
easy enough to setup as you can create virtual users easily by using the 
MySQL backend. Bewarned though that setting up Courier in the first 
place can be something of a nightmare. MTA's are so damned tricky and 
are usually badly documented.

> I believe that it is possible in some e-mail delivery systems to allow 
> users to create an unlimited number of addresses that deliver to their 
> account.  The kind of system I have seen is where the user has a an 
> address such as EMAIL:PROTECTED but they are allowed to augment 
> that address by adding things after the plus sign.  For example, the 
> user could use EMAIL:PROTECTED when signing up for messages from 
> abc.com.  When the e-mail comes in, the recipient is understood to be 
> lsjones and the message is delivered to the appropriate account.  The 
> user can configure their account to handle messages based on what 
> follows the + sign.  For example, all messages sent to lsjones+abc 
> could be put in the abc inbox.
>
> Does anyone know how this can be accomplished in a Linux system?  Have 
> any of you used it and is it recommended?  Finally, are spammers hip 
> to the plus sign trick and do they strip everything that follows the 
> plus sign before sending their spam?



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Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
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