Create s. th. like "catchgroup" between precise mail address and catchall

  • Years ago I used a control panel at Strato in Germany (Vista24, proprietary and now dead). They had a special feature in mail forwarding.


    With i-MSCP you can have
    - an e-mail box
    - an e-mail forwarder to one or more addresses, even cascade them :-)
    - a catchall address


    In the mentioned program there was additionally
    - a forwarder for a multiple of addresses


    Example:


    I have subscribed to many newsletters, each with its own mailadress, say


    letter01@mydomain.tld pour Figaro
    letter02@mydomain.tld pour Le Monde
    letter03@mydomain.tld pour Financial Times


    itgeek01@mydomain.tld pour Framasoft
    itgeek02@mydomain.tld pour Opensaar e.V.
    itgeek03@mydomain.tld pour i-MSCP News


    Formerly I had forwarders like


    letter* -> [email protected] (being an imap-account, called separately from other mails)
    itgeek* -> [email protected]


    I tested with i-MSCP and wildcards were accepted, but not working as such but literally ;-)


    So my question is: could this be implemented without much work? Just by giving postoffice programs a regular expression?


    If this would not be possible I'm happy I read of another solution in this forum. There s. o. suggested to create appropriate subdomains, e. g. in this case letter.mydomain.tld and itgeek.mydomain.tld.


    Beyond comfort there is another reason for my question/suggestion. Today it happens more often, that mail addresses get lost because they get on spam lists. While still receiving valid mails amidst spam you can put them out of your everyday box when naming of the addresses is somehow structured (name-YY-MM). In praxis it happens like this: on a webpage I discover an interesting new newsletter. Without need for creating a new address for that I can order this letter by using the next number (letter04@mydomain.tld in the example above). This address is already covered by my "catchmultiple"-forwarder. The frontend needn't be changed with such a solution.


    What do you think?

  • @sutorinfo


    What you want is kind of Mail alias and redirect but with wildcard possibility. So, in your case, instead of doing


    Code
    1. alias1.domain.tld [email protected] [email protected]

    you would want be able to do


    Code
    1. alias*@domain.tld [email protected]

    Note that [email protected] in that example is a real mailbox but that could be also a mail alias defined elsewhere.


    To resume, this should be possible as long as it is allowed by http://www.postfix.org/virtual.5.html


    However, this feature require several changes in our frontEnd and backend and this cannot be done in current Serie.

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