If you enter a subaddress into your personal alias database as
a public alias, then you can have mail sent to you with that
subaddress automatically forwarded. For example, suppose that
your address is bob@example.com and mail to you from the STAFF
mailing list arrives addressed to bob+staff@example.com. If
you create a public alias for staff then mail to the address
bob+staff@example.com will be forwarded to the address associated
with the alias. For instance, the commands
db> add staff bob+staff@naples.example.com
db> set staff public
cause mail sent to bob+staff@example.com to be forwarded to
bob+staff@naples.example.com.