email configuration options please

btw before we get going bla is my fictitious top level domain used in
this note just to thwart address harvesting

Hi, I would like to know if anyone has any ideas / pointers setting up an
email solution (combo SMTP MTA & POP3 server) that can handle a username
that is expressed as a full email address like tim@timsworld.bla

Put anotherway, I want to setup my thunderbird with a pop username of
tim@timsworld.bla , not just tim but the full thing with the '@'.

I also want to get multiple incoming email addresses redirected to
tim@timsworld.bla so fred@timsworld.bla goes to tim@timsworld.bla

I currently use sendmail and popa3d. I can create a user account on the
system that is tim@timsworld.bla. I can check pop mail with a username
of tim@timsworld.bla but when I go and setup my virtual user list in
/etc/mail/virtusertable I try this:

/etc/mail/virtusertable
fred@timsworld.bla tim@timsworld.bla
tim@timsworld.bla tim@timsworld.bla

this all falls apart.

I made it this far using an alias
/etc/mail/virtusertable
fred@timsworld.bla timsalias
tim@timsworld.bla timsalias

then in /etc/mail/aliases
timalias: "| cat >> /var/mail/tim@timsworld.bla"

that seems to work but now I just need to expand this concept to support
dspam filtering. I feel that this whole endevour is silly and maybe
there is another way to allow a pop client to use tim@timsworld.net for
a username.

I tried using qmail a few years ago and it was ugly. I had trouble
getting it to function on names that contained a period like
tim.schneider@timsworld.bla

Could this be done with postfix maybe?
Received on Thu Oct 11 10:56:04 2007