Re: Address extensions and virtual SQL users

Victor Duchovni:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:54:47PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > Postfix has two programs that deliver to mailboxes: local(8) and
> > virtual(8). In recent Postfix versions, both understand address
> > extensions.
> >
> > Neither of the two will name mailbox files after the extension.
> > That would be a terrible security problem where miscreants could
> > pollute the mailspool with lots of junk file names.
> >
>
> However it is possible with Postfix 2.1 and later in virtual_mailbox_maps
> to explicitly define a mapping from address+spam to an alternate maildir.
>
> This is not really an option with local delivery, unless the OP uses:
> mailbox_transport = virtual, in which case the above still applies.

With local delivery one could use a $HOME/.forward+spam file, with
the disposition of mail that matches the +spam extension.

Wietse