[ale] email aliases and wildcards

[ale at FultonGreen.com (Fulton Green)]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 07:55:56AM -0400, Jason Etheridge wrote:
> I want to set up a mailer that will deliver incoming mail to specific 
> mailboxes according to patterns and not just simple aliases.
> 
> For example, how could I get all email addressed to 
> issue-????@support.magusaptus.com to be delivered to user issue, if 
> ???? can be any number?
> 
> Currently I'm using postfix, but I'm willing to make use of other SMTP 
> servers.

My host uses Exim, which has the ability to analyze an incoming address
against a Perl-compatible regular expression (PCRE) and take various
actions on it, depending on how Exim is configured at the sysadmin
level.

www.US.Exim.org if you want to grok further.