Dispatch Catch-All Emails By Recipient
After more than a year of procrastination I finally setup a catch-all domain for my email; whatever recipient is set it goes to a single and only one mailbox.
So you can send an email to hello@example.com or contact@example.com, it will land in a single mailbox.
Convenient, no?
Even better, you can use this to segregate services on which you create an account, and know which sells your data, or gets pwned.
E.g:
netflixandchill@example.comtwitterxxx@example.comcoolwebsite@example.com
Pretty rad, no?
However, one downside is all emails will fill your INBOX, making it a real mess and unmanageable.
Is our fate doomed?
No, email filters, aka Sieve, is our saviour!
Roughly a dozen lines of script is enough:
require ["fileinto", "variables", "mailbox"];
if header :matches "To" "*<*@*" {
fileinto :create "auto-sorted ${2}";
stop;
}
if header :matches "To" "*@*" {
fileinto :create "auto-sorted ${1}";
stop;
}
My script-fu isn’t high, it can probably be improved.
The two blocks that will interest you are the two if.
They do pretty much the same thing, but matching different patterns.
- First will capure the recipient when the
To:field is in the formLain <the-wire@example.com>. - Second will capture the recipient when the
To:field is in the formthe-wire@example.com.
In both situations, the captured value is the-wire, they use it to concatenate auto-sorted with the former.
In the end, any of these incoming emails go in the directory auto-sorted the-wire.
Quick examples to recap:
hi@example.com→auto-sorted hicontact@example.com→auto-sorted contactAnon <netflixandchill@example.com>→auto-sorted netflixandchillnetflixandchill@example.com>→auto-sorted netflixandchill
Huge thanks to my friend who helped me to fix my skill-issue moments, and linked me the RFC1 that explains everything well. Also, my filter is hugely inspired by examples from RFC 5229§3.22.