Plesk / Qmail question

[joshb]

On my Plesk VPS, I can create email aliases from within the Plesk control panel, no problem, easy as pie. Yeah.

However, I'd like to get a little fancier. For the purpose of catching those lovely 'reputable' companies that sell my email address to spammers, I want user-extension@example.com to be delivered to user@example.com. I don't want to set up a separate alias for each different -extension.

Now, according to the 'Life With Plesk' manual (specifically the section on email extensions), this should be a matter of simply setting up some .qmail files in user's home directory. Only problem here is, mail users don't get their own home directory. Any idea where I should be putting the .qmail files to direct the mail to the appropriate place?

Thanks,

Josh

[joshb]

D'oh! I meant 'Life With Qmail' manual, not life with Plesk.

[JPC-Masood]

For the purpose of catching those lovely 'reputable' companies that sell my email address to spammers, I want user-extension@example.com to be delivered to user@example.com. I don't want to set up a separate alias for each different -extension.

This might be relevant: http://www.jaguarpc.com/support/kbase/801.html

[joshb]

This might be relevant: http://www.jaguarpc.com/support/kbase/801.html

Nope, that's for setting up a catchall address, which isn't what I want. I only want emails matching the pattern delivered. That way, I can 'turn off' individual email addresses if (when) the spammers get ahold of them. If I have the catchall address turned on, I will get *much* more spam, not to mention my poor server has to run spamd on all of those extra messages. With the catchall turned off, those messages just get rejected, reducing server load considerably.

Besides, I don't only want to use this feature for anti-spam purposes. It's also useful for filtering mail into various mailboxes, based on whether they're, say, from mailing lists, etc.

So, back to the original question: qmail has the feature of allowing email extensions. For whatever reason, I'd like to use them. However, when using Plesk it's not clear where to place the .qmail files that control the extension handling. Does anyone have any insight into this?

Thanks,

Josh

PS The KB article says it's a 'myth' that email aliases are useful for catching unscrupulous companies that sell your email address. I'd flatly disagree with this, as it's already worked for me the in past. In particular, not all companies you deal with notify you when they update (or eviscerate) their privacy policies, now stating that they'll give your info to 'trusted third parties.' eMusic, for instance, has been caught red-handed selling email your contact info to spammers, after they changed their privacy policy.

[JPC-Veena]

Josh,

You could try
/var/qmail/mailnames/domain.com folder
and/or
/var/qmail/mailnames/domain.com/username folder

[joshb]

Josh,

You could try
/var/qmail/mailnames/domain.com folder
and/or
/var/qmail/mailnames/domain.com/username folder

Sorry, I guess I forgot to mention that I already tried that. In theory, putting a proper .qmail-default file in /var/qmail/mailnames/domain.com/josh should enable delivery to josh-anything@, but they all get bounced.

Josh