Topic: emails addressed with hyphen "-" plus "anyString" at the end

[dorka]

I have installed SME 7.3.
I have noticed that emails addressed with hyphen "-" plus "anyString" at the end of account name or alias name are delivered to my SME 7.3.
For instance I have account name named "jsmith",
aliases to this account are: "john.smith" and "john_smith".
All emils addressed: "jsmith-@...", "jsmith-blabla@...", "john.smith-anystring@..." are delivered to account "jsmith".
I think that it is some error in SME 7.3.
Could you help me how can I resolve that problem.

[brianr]

You should fill in a bug report, after having searched the bug tracker for anything that covers this problem.

Bug tracker here:

http://bugs.contribs.org/

[william_syd]

All emils addressed: "jsmith-@...", "jsmith-blabla@...",

Just tested here.... same result.

I think that it is some error in SME 7.3.

This comment screams bug

[pfloor]

This behavior is by design.  It's configured that way to help you sort your email.  For instance, you username is john so you:

Sign up at contribs as john-contribs@xyz.com
Sign up at Microsoft as john-microsoft@xyz.com
You sign up at CentOS as john-centos@xyz.com

Then you use your email client to sort all your mail by the "to" value.  This makes it easier to sort especially from websites where emails come from multiple servers, domains and have mixed subject lines (like contribs).  It allows you to set one sorting rule using the "to" value to sort everything from contribs to a separate mail folder.

Could you help me how can I resolve that problem.

It's not a problem, it's a feature and many, many people use this feature.  However, like most everything else in SME there might be a way to turn it off. 

[CharlieBrady]

Then you use your email client to sort all your mail by the "to" value.

You don't even need to use your email client. Just create ~/.qmail-foo containing './Maildir/.foo/' and your mail will automatically be sorted (by qmail-local) into the 'foo' folder (which you will have to have created beforehand).

[dorka]

Quote from: pfloor on May 21, 2008, 08:29:24 AM
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It's not a problem, it's a feature and many, many people use this feature.  However, like most everything else in SME there might be a way to turn it off.
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I would be very grateful if I could turn that feature off, especially because I
have group name named "work" and some accounts named: "work01", "work02",
"work03". Someone would like to send email to addres "work01@..." but by
mistake he addressed to "work-01@..." (look at hyphen "-" after word "work")
and that email instead of being rejected was delivered to my all accounts which
belong to group "work".

Please give me an answer how I can turn that feature off.