Hi

oops, sorry if I was unclear, can I blame it on the holidaze? the below is exactly what I'm working with. heh.

General Prerequisites

Extension Addresses

TMDA is heavily based on user "extension addresses" (e.g, username+exte...@yourdomain.dom <mailto:username+exte...@yourdomain.dom>), and your MTA must be able to understand them. Some of the supported MTAs do by default, others must be configured to do so.

The character that separates the username from the extension in an extension address is often called the "recipient delimiter". The most popular choices are '''+''' and '''-''', although the hyphen is recommended <http://wiki.tmda.net/TmdaFaq#head-93eda22a9533714e4d93da9e7bac60df959bf8f6>. TMDA can support any recipient delimiter character though, just make sure you use the same character for your *RECIPIENT_DELIMITER* setting in *~/.tmda/config*.

Environment Variables

TMDA receives much of its information about the envelope of an incoming message from environment variables set by the MTA. Most importantly, *SENDER* (the full envelope sender address), *RECIPIENT* (the full envelope recipient address), and *EXT* or *EXTENSION* (the recipient address extension). In order to be reliable, TMDA needs these /real/ sender and recipient values. It can't rely on what might be in the To: or From: headers.

To use TMDA, you must make sure these variables are properly set by the time TMDA sees the message. TMDA expects these variables to be in the following format:

SENDER=sen...@somedomain.dom RECIPIENT=recipient+fo...@yourdomain.dom EXTENSION=foo

That is, just the e-mail address or recipient address extension, with no trailing or leading whitespace, or any other extraneous characters. As with extension addresses, some MTAs set these variables by default, others must be configured to do so.

Sam Varshavchik wrote: