Un-hardcoding the aliases

Hi,

The entries in the aliases and virtual user table files are hardcoded in a 
standard format, of the sort of listname-domain.com-owner (etc)

Lately we've been experiencing an increase in spam, as spam is being sent 
directly to the hardcoded alias (which is the recipient of the email from 
the virtual email address).

We'd like to recommend adding a GLOBAL config setting that would allow the 
above template address in the alias files to be prepended or appended 
with some other characters. For example, we might want to append random 
characters (for us) like "123abc" and then the program would change the 
aliases and virtual user table entries accordingly, so we'd have 
listname-domain.com-owner123abc become the entry.

On the outside this would be transparent, on the inside -- this would just 
simply change the addresses and have the spammers look elsewhere.

While we appreciate that the spam could come to the virtual address to 
begin with -- [email protected] -- but the ability to deflect no 
small amount in this method would be a great start for us.

Any chance?

Thanks,

BR

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Brock Rozen                                        [email protected]