I worked with a company where I could execute the following...
Imagine please that my email address is: jsmith@company.com
I could go into my Email Service Provider's system (Experian Cheetahmail, e-Dialog, etc...)...Let's say I have a marketing email I'm preparing and it includes various dynamic content elements. To test each dynamic content iteration, I need to be able to send test emails to different email addresses.
To fulfill this need, my Exchange Server had the capability to accept values after a hyphen, without rejecting them...Forwarding them all to me. I did not have to pre-define any aliases. This was completely arbitrary and I could add whatever I wanted to after the hyphen. Examples of what I would use would be: jsmith-1@company.com, jsmith-test1@company.com, etc. I couldn't use spaces (obviously) but I could include anything I wanted after the dash, it didn't just have to be a number, (E.g. jsmith-applesauce@company.com).
When received into the Exchange Server, the system knew to IGNORE the hyphen, and all values after it, leading up to the "@" symbol...Therefore delivering all emails to my inbox successfully. Please note it "Ignored" it...It didn't "Strip" the values...I needed them retained when reaching my inbox so I could trace any issues back with the dynamic content in the ESP's system.
Any ideas out there how this was done? Any native MS software add-ons for Exchange that will do this?
Thanks!
-Brian