Wildcard email alias in /etc/alias file

custangro · 10-02-2009, 12:07 PM

Hello,

I want to have an address(es) route to 1 email. But I want to "wildcard" the email address...

For example...I want:

me1@mail.myserver.com
me2@mail.myserver.com
me23@mail.myserver.com
meahdsfhzsdfhasdfasdfh@mail.myserver.com
me1238487234909sdfdfwefe@mail.myserver.com

Ad nauseum...

in essence "me*@mail.myserver.com" to route to me@mail.myserver.com

I've tried adding this in /etc/aliases

Code:

me*@mail.myserver.com:   me@mail.myserver.com

But this dosen't produce the desired result...

Any questions/concerns/advice/ideas are greatly appreciated

-C

reickler · 10-02-2009, 12:17 PM

Don;t think you can use wildcards in that way. You can use them as the entire left-side, but not to match part of it.

You'll probably have to move the mail around *after* it's delivered using something like procmail.