[kwlug-disc] Email server (lets bring this up again!)

Chamunks chamunks at gmail.com
Wed May 1 20:22:45 EDT 2019


It's an interesting system for sure. I've wanted single use email addresses
for a long time.

It's probably a catch all.

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:30 PM Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com> wrote:

> So once more into the (mail) fold, but with a little bit of a twist.
>
> I've had a mail server sitting out there, barely used, for quite some
> time.  I've set up DKIM, SPF and spamassasin.  I'm not too worried about
> spam, this is mostly a server I play with, to see if I can learn something
> new.
>
>  At a recent home and garden show, one of the vendors mentioned that
> someone with their own domain, used the vendor's business name as part of
> the email.  So a company named 'Ron Howard Construction' would be given the
> email 'ronhoward at mydomain.com'.
>
> I assumed this would just be a catch-all, which works... but with one
> caveat; you can't easily respond with 'ronhoward'.  Instead, your catch-all
> address is returned, which kind of defeats the purpose.
>
> I would like to set this up, mostly just because it's there, and I want
> to...  I may never use it...
>
> So I'm wondering if any of you lot out there have heard of something like
> this?
> A paid service, perhaps?
> A way to trick postfix/dovecot (or perhaps Roundcube) into behaving in
> this manner?
>
> Thanks!
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